One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
To myself alone do I owe my fame.
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
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.
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.