To myself alone do I owe my fame.

Rome alone can resist Rome.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.