Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Luck never made a man wise.

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.