Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
In love there are two evils: war and peace.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.