Claudian quotes

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it. (Claudian)
Death renders all equal. View quote
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Vile latens virtus. View quote
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Presence will minish awe. View quote
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Whoso causes terror is himself more fearful. View quote
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No longer can I complain that the unrighteous man reaches the highest pinnacle of success. He is raised aloft that he may be hurled down in more headlong ruin. View quote
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Virtue hidden hath no value. View quote
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If thou make any law or establish any custom for the general good, be the first to submit thyself thereto; then does a people show more regard for justice nor refuse submission when it has seen their author obedient to his own laws. The world shapes itself after its ruler's pattern, nor can edicts sway men's minds so much as their monarch's life; the unstable crowd ever changes along with the prince. View quote
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Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot. View quote
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Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm. View quote
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But he whom reason, not anger, animates is a peer of the gods. (Claudian)
He who desires is always poor. View quote
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Virtue is indeed its own reward. View quote
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