„Каждый сам кузнец своей судьбы.“
Добавить примечание: (la) Faber est suae quisque fortunae.
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Гай Саллю́стий Крисп — древнеримский историк, реформатор античной историографии, оказавший значительное влияние на Тацита и других историков.
Саллюстий стал одним из первых римских историков, кто ввёл в исторические произведения развёрнутые речи главных героев, призванные лучше подчеркнуть особенности их характера и политической ориентации. Также одним из первых бросил критический взгляд на недавнюю историю Рима. От его главного труда, «Истории», сохранились незначительные отрывки. Более известны две небольшие исторические монографии — «О заговоре Катилины» и «Югуртинская война». Теоретической основой трудов Саллюстия стало учение об упадке нравов, согласно которому причиной кризиса Римской республики стал отход от традиционных добродетелей к господству честолюбия и жадности.
Цитаты Гай Саллюстий Крисп
„Plenty of eloquence, not enough wisdom“
— Sallust
said of Catiline
Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC)
Добавить примечание: (la) Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.
„As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end.“
— Sallust
As quoted in The Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin (1894) edited by J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward, p. 508
Контексте: 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.
„He that will be angry for anything, will be angry for nothing.“
— Sallust
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
„Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.“
— Sallust
IV.69.18
Variant translation: Only a few prefer liberty, the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.
Histories
Добавить примечание: (la) Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.
„Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.“
— Sallust
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
„For the fame of riches and beauty is fickle and frail, while virtue is eternally excellent.“
— Sallust
For the glory of wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable; that of the mind is illustrious and immortal.
Добавить примечание: (la) Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.
Источник: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter I; Variant translation:
„For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.“
— Sallust, книга Bellum Iugurthinum
X.6
Bellum Iugurthinum
Добавить примечание: (la) Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.
„Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.“
— Sallust
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
„Necessity makes even the timid brave.“
— Sallust
Добавить примечание: (la) Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.
Источник: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter LVII
