Quotes from Statius

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.

Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests.

Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

Fear first made gods in the world.