The human character has been ill-served by nature: we tend to consider matters carefully after the fact, not before. -Quintus Curtius Rufus

I find myself aggrieved Yet insufficient to express the same; For it requires a great and thunderous speech -Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1

Though royal purple soothes his pride, And snowy pearls his neck adorn, Nero in all his riot lives The mark of universal scorn. -Boethius