Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth,
grows torpid.
[Lat., Blandoque veneno
Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.]
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
SILIUS ITALICUS Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
SILIUS ITALICUS Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
SILIUS ITALICUS The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
[Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]
CAIUS TRANQUILLUS SUETONIUS Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.
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It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.
[Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
CAIUS CORNELIUS GALLUS Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
[Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!...
CAIUS TRANQUILLUS SUETONIUS Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever l...
CAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it
built of marble.
[Lat., Urbem lateri...
CAIUS TRANQUILLUS SUETONIUS Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very
circumstance that their portraits were...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
[Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The most seditious is the most cowardly.
[Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are
destroyed.
[Lat., Concordia res ...
SALLUST (CAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS) Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was
afterwards boldest in words and t...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own.
[Lat., Alieni appetens sui profusus.]
SALLUST (CAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS) When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no
crime.
[Lat., Neque femina amissa pud...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return
them; but once exceeding that, hat...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Necessity makes even the timid brave.
[Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.]
SALLUST (CAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS) The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired
friendships by giving rather than receiv...
SALLUST (CAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS) Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by
indolence.
[Lat., Utque alios industria...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at
those who, after thirty years of a...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp
sting behind it.
[Lat., Aspere fa...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen.
[Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Blood is thicker than water.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The sun sets without thy assistance.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe
councils.
[Lat., Potentiam cautis quam a...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
[Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
[Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nem...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
[Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour degu...
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse ...
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Arms and laws do not flourish together.
JULIUS CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR) I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not,
but I feel that I do and I am tor...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?
[Lat., Quid datur a divis felici...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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[Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]
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In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
[Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
JULIUS CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR) Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our
own backs.
[Lat., Suus quoque attr...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not
laughed.
[Fr., La plus perdue d...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
[Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted
from us the gracious favor of the...
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[Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
- Juliu...
JULIUS CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR) For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if
you refuse a request, all former fav...
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for
if it be true that is reported, the...
PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) Joking set aside.
[Lat., Omissis jocis.]
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the
words which we hear, for though w...
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of
our feelings.
[Lat., Plerumque do...
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and
therefore the Divers under the water doe ...
PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were
consisting of feathers, which they will...
PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) He has no fault except that he has no fault.
[Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most
serious which proceeds from the head...
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no
more and the same plaine and simple: ...
PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best
fertilizer.
[Lat., Majores fertilissiu...
PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
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Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace. 
It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.
[Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.] 
Arms and laws do not flourish together. 
You also, O son Brutus.
[Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.] 