Sallust Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• 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.

  Sallust

  Friendship, Cheating, Liars

• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  Sallust

  Gratitude, Ambition, Blood

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

  Sallust

  Ambition, Men, Tongue

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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