At Rome, all things can be had at a price. |
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold |
Be gentle with the young. |
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. |
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. |
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak. |
Even legal punishments lose all appearance of justice when too strictly inflicted on men compelled by the last extremity of distress to incur them |
Even savage animals can agree among themselves. |
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender |
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. |
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes. |
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. |
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things? |
He that plots secret crime his soul within - Is straightaway guilty of the actual sin |
Heaven loves man more than man doth love himself |