Silius Italicus quotes:

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.

Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs