Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
No one ever suddenly became depraved.
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us. [Lat., Festinat enim decurrere velox Flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae Portico; dum bibimus dum sera unguenta puellas Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus.]
But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
The venal herd. [Lat., Venale pecus.]
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
I only feel, but want the power to paint.
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.
The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]
Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.
Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
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!
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
Of what avail are pedigrees?
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
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