Nunquam ulla humilitas ingenium infirmat bonum[40].
Erat istuc virile, ferre advorsam fortunam facul[41].
Nam si a me regnum fortuna atque opes
Eripere quivit, at virtutem non quit[42].
Nullum est ingenium tantum, neque cor tam ferum,
Quod non labascat lingua, mitiscat malo[43].
The following, again, like similar passages already quoted from Ennius and Pacuvius, is expressive of contempt for that form of superstition which had most practical hold over the minds of the Roman people:—
Nil credo auguribus, qui auris verbis divitant
Alienas, suas ut auro locupletent domos[44].