„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.
„Yet many human beings, resigned to sensuality and indolence, un-instructed and unimproved, have passed through life like travellers in a strange country.“
— Sallust
Добавить примечание: (la) Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere.
Источник: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter II
„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.“
— Sallust
Добавить примечание: (la) 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.
Источник: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter I
„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.“
— Sallust
Добавить примечание: (la) 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.
Источник: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XXXIII, section 5
„For to like the same things and to dislike the same things, only this is a strong friendship.“
— Sallust
Добавить примечание: (la) Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
Источник: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XX, 4; quoting Catiline
„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?“
— Sallust
Добавить примечание: (la) Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?
Источник: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XX, section 9; quoting Catiline
„It becomes all men, Senators, who deliberate on dubious matters, to be influenced neither by hatred, affection, anger, nor pity.“
— Sallust
Добавить примечание: (la) Omnes homines, patres conscripti, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira atque misericordia vacuos esse decet.
Источник: 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.“
— Sallust
Добавить примечание: (la) 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.
Источник: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter II, sections 3-6; translation by Rev. John Selby Watson
