Mecum Honor ac Laudes et laeto Gloria vultu et Decus ac niveis Victoria concolor alis. - Silius Italicus

Sic, ubi perrupit stagnantem calculus undam,
exiguos format per prima volumina gyros,
mox tremulum uibrans motu gliscente liquorem
multiplicat crebros sinuati gurgitis orbes,
donec postremo laxatis circulus oris
contingat geminas patulo curuamine ripas.

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.

Metui demens credebat honorem.