Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
Remote though your farm may be, It’s something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child’s tender years.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
There’s no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
Who’d bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
There’s a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor’s shame.
Travelers with naught sing in the robber’s face.
What is more cruel than a tyrant’s ear?
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.