I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]

Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. [Lat., Neque enim lex est aequior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.]

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]

The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. [Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.]