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Sallust Quotes

 

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20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.Monday, April 10th, 1972

Quotes

    • Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur. (I)
    • Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est. (I)
    • Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)
    • Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere. (II)
    • Sed ego adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant. (III)
    • Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere. (X.5)
    • Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est. (XX.4)
    • Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere? (XX.9)
    • At nos non imperium neque divitias petimus, quarum rerum causa bella atque certamina omnia inter mortales sunt, sed libertatem, quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittit. (XXXIII.5)
    • Omnes homines, patres conscripti, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira atque misericordia vacuos esse decet. (LI.1)
    • Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur. (X.6)
    • Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt (iv.69.18)
    • Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae. (I.i.2)
    • 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.
    • Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
    • He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
    • Necessity makes even the timid brave.
    • Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
    • Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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