A Quote by Sallust

The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]

Sallust

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Enjoy Life Short Very Which

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Sallust
Roman - Historian
86 BC - 34 BC

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

Plautus

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

Quintilian

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

Juvenal

Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him. [Lat., Virtus praemium est optimum. Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto. Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes, Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur; Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quem penes est vertus.]

Plautus

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

Horace

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

Francis Bacon

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

Tacitus

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Seneca the Younger

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]

Plautus

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]

Plautus

There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]