We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.
Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
But who guards the guardians?
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
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