The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

To innovate is not to reform.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

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