Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
When the candles are out all women are fair.
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]
Instead of using medicine, better fast today.