Bad beginnings, bad endings.
Valor is the soldier's adornment.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.