What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
Punishment follows close on crime.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.
Victory is by nature superb and insulting.
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
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