“Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.”

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.

Honesty is admired, and starves.

Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.

The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.