Catiline's War, The Jurgurthine War, Histories Quotes

“Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.

(Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.)”
― Sallust, Catiline's War, The Jurgurthine War, Histories

“All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.”
― Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Catiline's War, The Jurgurthine War, Histories

“In general, this is what destroys great states: one group wants to overcome the other in any possible way and then to take a bitter vengeance on the defeated.”
― Sallust, Catiline's War, The Jurgurthine War, Histories

“But many mortals, devoted to their stomachs and to sleep, have passed through life untaught and uncouth, like foreign travelers; and of course, contrary to nature, their bodies were a source of pleasure to them, their minds a burden. In the case of such people, I asses their life and death alike, since silence surrounds each. -p4”
― Sallust, Catiline's War, The Jurgurthine War, Histories