"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn."

"Quamdiu stabit Capitolium, stabit Roma; quando cadet Capitolium, cadet Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus."

"The gods exonerate the bold."

"The envious man is his own executioner."

"Beauty's a fragile boon, and the years are quick to destroy it, Always diminished with time, never enduring too long."