"Fame, the evil, than which no other evil is swifter."

"Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis."

"Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things."

"Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate."

"Through various hazards, through so many crises of things, we tend to Latium, where the Fates show quiet seats."