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Gaio Sallustio Crispo frasi celebri
“Volere e non volere le stesse cose, questa è la vera amicizia.”
Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
cap. XX, par. 4
La congiura di Catilina
da Sugli Dei e il mondo, cap. IV, a cura di R. Di Giuseppe, Adelphi, 2000, p. 127
“Con la concordia le piccole cose crescono, con la discordia le grandissime vanno in rovina.”
da La guerra giugurtina, 10, 6
Gaio Mario: LXXXV, 40; 2013
La guerra giugurtina
“Infatti la fama delle ricchezze e della bellezza è fugace e fragile, la virtù è considerata illustre ed eterna.”
Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.
La congiura di Catilina
Frasi sulla natura di Gaio Sallustio Crispo
Gaio Mario: LXXXV, 15; 2013
La guerra giugurtina
“Nella molteplicità delle attività umane la Natura offre sempre a ciascuno la propria strada.”
Origine: La congiura di Catilina, Silvia Perezzani e Sandro Usai, p. 19
Gaio Sallustio Crispo Frasi e Citazioni
“Tutte le cattive azioni derivano e prendono a esempio delle buone azioni.”
Cesare, commentando il precedente che costituirebbe la messa a morte di un cittadino romano: 51,27
Origine: La congiura di Catilina, Silvia Perezzani e Sandro Usai, p. 17
Origine: La congiura di Catilina, Silvia Perezzani e Sandro Usai, p. 23
Origine: La congiura di Catilina, Silvia Perezzani e Sandro Usai, p. 25
Origine: La congiura di Catilina, Silvia Perezzani e Sandro Usai, p. 27
“I piccoli stati prosperano con la concordia, con la discordia vanno in rovina i più grandi.”
Micipsa: X, 6; 2013
La guerra giugurtina
Gaio Mario: LXXXV, 29-30; 2013
Non possum fidei causa imagines neque triumphos aut consulatus maiorum meorum ostentare, at, si res postulet, hastas, uexillum, phaleras, alia militaria dona, praeterea cicatrices aduerso corpore. Hae sunt meae imagines, haec nobilitas, non hereditate relicta, ut illa illis, sed quae ego meis plurimis laboribus et periculis quaesiui.
La guerra giugurtina
Gaio Sallustio Crispo: Frasi in inglese
“But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.”
At nos non imperium neque divitias petimus, quarum rerum causa bella atque certamina omnia inter mortales sunt, sed libertatem, quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittit.
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XXXIII, section 5
“As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end.”
As quoted in The Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin (1894) edited by J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward, p. 508
Contesto: 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.
“Plenty of eloquence, not enough wisdom”
Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.
said of Catiline
Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC)
“For to like the same things and to dislike the same things, only this is a strong friendship.”
Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XX, 4; quoting Catiline
“Ambition prompted many to become deceitful; to keep one thing concealed in the breast, and another ready on the tongue; to estimate friendships and enmities, not by their worth, but according to interest; and to carry rather a specious countenance than an honest heart.”
Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere.
Variant translation: It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter X, section 5
“Is it not better to die in a glorious attempt, than, after having been the sport of other men's insolence, to resign a wretched and degraded existence with ignominy?”
Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XX, section 9; quoting Catiline
“But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.
I.i.2
Epistulae ad Caesarem senem
“It becomes all men, Senators, who deliberate on dubious matters, to be influenced neither by hatred, affection, anger, nor pity.”
Omnes homines, patres conscripti, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira atque misericordia vacuos esse decet.
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter LI, section 1
“And, indeed, if the intellectual ability of kings and magistrates were exerted to the same degree in peace as in war, human affairs would be more orderly and settled, and you would not see governments shifted from hand to hand, and things universally changed and confused. For dominion is easily secured by those qualities by which it was at first obtained. But when sloth has introduced itself in the place of industry, and covetousness and pride in that of moderation and equity, the fortune of a state is altered together with its morals; and thus authority is always transferred from the less to the more deserving.”
Quod si regum atque imperatorum animi virtus in pace ita ut in bello valeret, aequabilius atque constantius sese res humanae haberent neque aliud alio ferri neque mutari ac misceri omnia cerneres. Nam imperium facile iis artibus retinetur, quibus initio partum est. Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate lubido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus inmutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optumum quemque a minus bono transferetur.
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter II, sections 3-6; translation by Rev. John Selby Watson
“For the fame of riches and beauty is fickle and frail, while virtue is eternally excellent.”
Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.
For the glory of wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable; that of the mind is illustrious and immortal.
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter I; Variant translation:
“Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.”
Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.
IV.69.18
Variant translation: Only a few prefer liberty, the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.
Histories
“Necessity makes even the timid brave.”
Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter LVII
“Yet many human beings, resigned to sensuality and indolence, un-instructed and unimproved, have passed through life like travellers in a strange country.”
Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere.
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter II
“But when sloth has introduced itself in the place of industry, and covetousness and pride in that of moderation and equity, the condition of a state is altered together with its morals; and thus authority is always transferred from the less to the more deserving.”
Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)
Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC)
“Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.”
The earliest attributions of this yet found are to it being a saying of William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, in History of the Anti-Corn Law League (1853), by Archibald Prentice, p. 54; around 1876 it began to began to be cited to W. Scott, and then around 1880 sometimes to Walter Scott, but without citations of source, including a variant: "Selfish ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude" in a publication of 1907. It seems to only recently to have begun to be attributed to Sallust, on the internet.
Misattributed
“I myself, however, when a young man, was at first led by inclination, like most others, to engage in political affairs; but in that pursuit many circumstances were unfavorable to me; for, instead of modesty, temperance, and integrity, there prevailed shamelessness, corruption, and rapacity.”
Sed ego adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter III
“Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.”
Henri Bergson, as quoted in The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life (1950), p. 442; this only seems to have become attributed to Sallust in the early 21st century.
Misattributed
“For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.”
Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.
Sallust libro Bellum Iugurthinum
X.6
Bellum Iugurthinum
“He that will be angry for anything, will be angry for nothing.”
This had appeared as an anonymous maxim as early as 1844; the first attribution to Sallust yet found is in The Voice of Wisdom, A Treasury of Moral Truths from the Best Authors (1883) edited by J. E.
Disputed
“All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.”
Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est.
Origine: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter I
