Quote by Sallust (86 BC-34 BC) , Appius Claudius

• Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

• 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.

• To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

• The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

• A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.