Claudius Claudianus Quotes

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

Death renders all equal.

The covetous man is always poor.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

Liberty begets license.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

Death is the great leveller.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.

Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.