Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

About Sallust

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (, SAL-əst; c. 86–35 BC), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC), circa 50s BC. He...

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