All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to… — Sallust
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.
In the original Latin
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.
The War of Catiline · 42 BC
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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.
Original citation
Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.
