Silius Italicus quotes

“Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.”
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Source : "Punica". Lib. XIII. Line 663.,

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“Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs”
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“Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.”
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“Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.”
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“Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.”
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“It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.”
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“Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.”
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“Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.”
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“Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.”
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“The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2014). “The Sweet Science”, p.5, Macmillan

“Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.”

Source : "20 famous college commencement speeches" by Mo Elinzano, www.deseretnews.com. May 6, 2015.

“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.”

“Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.”

“Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.”

“The reward is in the doing of it.”

“Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.”

“Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.”

“Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.”