“Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.”
“Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.”
“You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.”
“Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.”
“Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.”
“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.”
“Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.”
“Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.”
“I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.”
“I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.”
“Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.”
“The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.”
“Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.”
“They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence”