Frases de Salustio
Salustio
Fecha de nacimiento: 86 a.C.
Fecha de muerte: 34 a.C.
Cayo Salustio Crispo fue un historiador romano.
Por su obra es considerado como uno de los más importantes historiadores latinos del siglo I a. C. y de toda la latinidad.
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Frases Salustio
„Plenty of eloquence, not enough wisdom“
— Sallust
Context: Plenty of eloquence, not enough wisdom (said of Catiline)
„As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end.“
— Sallust
Context: 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.
As quoted in The Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin (1894) edited by J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward, p. 508
„For the fame of riches and beauty is fickle and frail, while virtue is eternally excellent.“
— Sallust
Chapter I; Variant translation:
For the glory of wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable; that of the mind is illustrious and immortal.
„Necessity makes even the timid brave.“
— Sallust
Chapter LVII <!-- , as quoted in A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1907) edited by William Gurney Benham, p. 830 -->
