“Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.”

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.