Fortune favors the brave.
[Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]
Claudian (Claudianus)
Related
England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's f...
XAVI Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th...
JASON REITMAN I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I...
JULIE ANDREWS Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM The whole world is a man's birthplace.
CAECILIUS STATIUS Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O...
JOY HARJO Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
FREDERIC CHOPIN We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and t...
IRWIN ROSE
More Claudian (Claudianus)
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
[Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
[Lat., Vile latens virtus.]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.
[Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to
submit to the laws when they see ...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) A severe war lurks under the show of peace.
[Lat., Mars gravior sub pace latet.]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a
greater fall.
[Lat., Tolluntur i...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings;
and edicts are of less power than...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others;
it is the only means.
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
[Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi
Nulla potest placare q...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an
excellent prince. Never does liberty a...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly
overthrew.
[Lat., Quod tantis Romana ...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) The fickle populace always change with the prince.
[Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgu...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to
have done, and let the sense of hon...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to
destruction.
[Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Nor is heaven always at peace.
[Lat., Nec sidera pacem
Semper habent.]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and
who, after weighing the facts, can...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
[Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta super...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Change or die.
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high
position.
[Lat., Asperius nihil est humi...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) He who desires is always poor.
CLAUDIANUS Pride sullies the noblest character.
CLAUDIANUS Virtue is indeed its own reward.
CLAUDIANUS The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
CLAUDIUS CLAUDIANUS He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.
CLAUDIUS CLAUDIANUS