Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.
Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]
Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]
Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.
No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]
All wish to know, but few the price will pay.
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]
Of what avail are pedigrees?
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
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