About Sallust
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust ( , SAL-əst; c. 86 – c. 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),...
More quotations from Sallust
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
More quotations tagged with “fortune”
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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