Punica fide .

[ Of Rome :] A venal city ripe to perish, if a buyer can be found.

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.