To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
Be gentle with the young.
To have slaved so many years for nothing!
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.
Dedicate one's life to truth.
Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.
The face, not the woman is the attraction.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
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 no reliance to be placed on appearance.
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
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