Pharsalia (Nicholas Rowe)

"Justly to name the better cause were hard, While greatest names for either side declared; Victorious Caesar by the gods was crowned, The vanquished party was by Cato owned."

"Haste, then, thy towering eagles on their way: When fair occasion calls, tis fatal to delay."

"And violence prescribed the rule to law."

"And usury still watching for its day; Hence perjuries in every wrangling court; And war, the needy bankrupts last resort."

"They who deny just things permit them all."

"Thus power and greatness to destruction haste, Thus bounds to human happiness are placed, And Jove forbids prosperity to last."