Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.