Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.