Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.