To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

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