Better late than never.
A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.