Sallust Famous Quotes
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
"They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."
"Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
"The higher your station, the less your liberty."
Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.
"To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful."
"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord."
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
"Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act."
"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship."
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust Quotations
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Johann von Goethe
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
Dennis Fakes
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
Richard Diran
"You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law."
John and Brand Josh Falsey
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
Saint Augustine
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
"A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind."
Harold Taylor
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A white wall is the fool's paper.
French Proverb