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Sallust

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Sallust is one of those voices you encounter and immediately want to hear more from. With equal ease, Sallust moved between Friendship and Anger, finding connections others missed. 12 of Sallust's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Friendship, Anger, Nature, Money, and Health. Start here and see if you agree: "To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."

“To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.”

— Sallust

Friendship

All Quotes by Sallust

“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.”

— Sallust

Health

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

— Sallust

Good

“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.”

— Sallust

Great

“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.”

— Sallust

Nature

“Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.”

— Sallust

Money

“To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.”

— Sallust

Friendship

“The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.”

— Sallust

Friendship

“The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.”

— Sallust

Beauty

“All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.”

— Sallust

Anger

“All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.”

— Sallust

Anger