Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Be gentle with the young.
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.
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune’s sake.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.