Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.
From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
Let him love none and be by none beloved!
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.
Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.
Those things please more, which are more expensive.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
It is difficult not to write satire.
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)
One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.
No one every suddenly became depraved.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
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