The gods are on the side of the stronger.
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.
Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
Rumor is not always wrong.
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.