Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
She knows no difference ’twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
Everything in Rome has its price.
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
Of what avail are pedigrees?
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
Savage bears agree with one another.
See the effect of commercial intercourse.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Tears ready to do duty at a minute’s notice.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.
Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber’s face.
Wisdom is the winner over good luck.