Claudius Claudianus quotes:

Nor is heaven always at peace.

Here is a fine field for talent.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

Whoever desires is always poor.

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Liberty begets license.

Death renders all equal.

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

Death is the great leveller.

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

The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

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

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

The covetous man is always poor.

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

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.

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

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

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

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

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

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

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

The fickle populace always change with the prince.

He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.

Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.