Decimus Laberius Quotes

Ut hedera serpens vires arboreas necat,
ita me vetustas amplexu annorum enecat.
sepulcri similis nihil nisi nomen retineo.

Quem nulla ambitio, nulla umquam largitio,
nullus timor, vis nulla, nulla auctoritas
movere potuit in iuventa de statu,
ecce in senecta ut facile labefecit loco
viri excellentis mente clemente edita
summissa placide blandiloquens oratio?

Porro, Quirites, libertatem perdimus.

He whom many fear must needs fear many.

All men cannot come out first each time. When you’ve reached the highest step on fame’s ladder, you’ll find it hard to keep your footing and fall more quickly than you rise: I fell, and so will the one who follows: fame belongs to no one man.