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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
Facti crimen habet.]
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
I only feel, but want the power to paint.
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
there is nothing that divine Majesty will not believe concerning itself when lauded to the skies!
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Benign Philosophy, by degrees, strips from us most of our vices, and all our mistakes; it is she that first teaches us the right.
Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.
One has no protecting power save prudence.
[Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna."
["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]
Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
Astrology reveals the will of the gods.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.
The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by
And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.
..but who will guard the guardians?
Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the 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.
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
Of what avail are pedigrees?
The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.]
No one becomes depraved all at once.
Ut who will guard the guardians?
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
No nice extreme a true Italian knows;
But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.]
Savage bears agree with one another.
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
[Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
Trust not to outward show.
[Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
If now a friend denies not what was given him in trust,
If he restores an ancient purse with all its coins and rust,
This prodigy of honesty deserves to be enrolled
In Tuscan books, and with a sacrificial lamb extolled.
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
Must this with farce and folly rack my
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead?
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
To lay down one's life for the truth.
Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath,
At most seven inches from the jaws of death.
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
while your mother in law still lives, domestic harmony / is out of the question.
We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.
[Lat., Dociles imitandis
Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
Everything in Rome has its price.
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.
Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,
which places the length of life last among nature's blessings,
which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,
does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.
I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;
For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue.
Honesty is admired, and starves.
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.
Virtue is the only and true nobility.
[Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
The itch of scribbling.
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire]
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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.
Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.
Nature and wisdom always say the same.
