They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.
There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]
Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)
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