Quoque magis subiere iugo atque euadere nisi erexere gradum, crescit labor. ardua supra sese aperit fessis et nascitur altera moles. - Silius Italicus

Virtue is indeed its own noblest reward; yet the dead find it sweet, when the fame of their lives is remembered among the living and oblivion does not swallow up their praises.

Pax optima rerum
quas homini novisse datum est, pax una triumphis
innumeris potior, pax custodire salutem
et civis aequare potens revocetur in arcis
tandem Sidonias, et fama fugetur ab urbe
perfidiae, Phoenissa, tua.

At patulo surgens iam dudum ex aequore late
nauticus implebat resonantia litora clamor,
et simul adductis percussa ad pectora tonsis
centeno fractus spumabat verbere pontus.