No man becomes bad all at once.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
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.
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes.
Rarely they rise by virtue’s aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.
Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.
Seek not to shine by borrow’d lights alone.
Astrology reveals the will of the gods.
All wish to know, but few the price will pay.
Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.