The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.