The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. Sallust More Quotes by Sallust More Quotes From Sallust When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who Sallust wicked evil fall A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension. Sallust ruins increase fall A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil. Sallust wisdom evil men In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. Sallust virtue practice natural The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth? Sallust stars taken father The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. Sallust fleeting wealth virtue Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity. Sallust loyalty kindness friendship By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. Sallust wicked Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master. Sallust The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. Sallust The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. Sallust To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. Sallust Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. Sallust thought think man action
