“Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.”

The noblest motive is the public good.

Let me rage before I die.

The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.

No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.

No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.

Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

When gods are contrary they stand by no one.

Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

They can because they think they can.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

No benefits can be expected from war.

Trust one who has gone through it.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.