“Fortune is given to brave men.”
Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia, Book VI, Chapter I
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“Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Why? I fly, living, through the mouths of men.”
Nemo me lacrumis decoret neque funera fletu
faxit. Cur? volito vivos per ora virum.
As quoted by Cicero in Tusculanae Disputationes, Book I, chapter XV, section 34
“where the Gauls stealthily, at the time of night when sleep falls on men, attacked the high citadel and of a sudden stained with blood walls and watchers.”
Qua Galli furtim noctu summa arcis adorti
moenia concubia vigilesque repente cruentant.
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia, Book I, Chapter IV (tr. J. Elliott)