This is the only path of safety, Lucius Paulus, which your countrymen will render more difficult and dangerous to you than their enemies will.

For your own soldiers will desire the same thing as those of the enemy: Varro, a Roman consul, and Hannibal, a Carthaginian general, will wish the same thing.

You alone must resist two generals: and you will resist them sufficiently if you stand firm against the report and the rumours of men; if neither the empty glory of your colleague, and the unfounded calumnies against yourself, shall move you.

They say that truth too often suffers, but is never destroyed.

He who despises fame will have it genuine.