Sallust Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

  Sallust

  Wise, Soul, Trying

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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

  Sallust

  Intellectual, Fleeting, Wealth

• 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.

  Sallust

  War, Men, Honorable Man

• The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

  Sallust

  Fleeting, Wealth, Virtue

• If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.

  Sallust

  Men, Good Man, Wicked

• The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

  Sallust

  Beauty, Shining, Age

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