Virgil

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Want of pluck shows want of blood.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.