Virgil
"They can because they think they can." - Aeneid
"Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it." - Aeneid
"The descent to Avernus is easy." - Aeneid
"Fortune favours the bold." - Aeneid
"Rumour, than which no evil flies more swiftly.
She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion.
Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven,
Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds."
- Aeneid