Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
To women silence gives their proper grace.
To him who is afraid, everything rustles.