When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

Who is to guard the guards themselves?

Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]