James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Statius

Da spatium tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat / Impetus—Allow time and slight delay; haste and violence ruin everything.

Hilarisque tamen cum pondere virtus—Virtue may be gay, yet with dignity.

Male cuncta ministrat / Impetus—Violence (of passion) conducts everything badly.

O cæca nocentum / Consilia, O semper timidum scelus!—Oh, how infatuated are the counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly wickedness ever is!

Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor—It was fear that first suggested the existence of the gods.

Quid crastina volveret ætas / Scire nefas homini—It is not permitted to man to know what to-morrow may bring forth.