Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
Better late than never.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.