“Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.”

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.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment.

The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.