A biography for Sallusthasn’t been written yet.
“No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.”
“Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.”
“As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.”
“Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.”
“In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.”
“Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.”
“They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.”
“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.”
“He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.”
“In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.”
“All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.”
“Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.”
“We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.”
“In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.”
“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
“The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.”
“No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.”
“Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.”
“Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.”
“Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.(Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.)”