Sallust

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

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