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In Their Palate Alone Is Their Reason Of Existence. [lat., In Solo Vivendi Causa Palata Est.]

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In Their Palate Alone Is Their Reason Of Existence. [lat., In Solo Vivendi Causa Palata Est.]

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Refrain From Doing Ill; For One All Powerful Reason, Lest Our Children Should Copy Our Misdeeds; We Are All Too Prone To Imitate Whatever Is Base And Depraved.

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Be, As Many Now Are, Luxurious To Yourself, Parsimonious To Your Friends. [lat., Esto, Ut Nunc Multi, Dives Tibi Pauper Amicis.]

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Give Up All Hope Of Peace So Long As Your Mother-in-law Is Alive.

Everything Is Greek, When It Is More Shameful To Be Ignorant Of Latin.

Limits The Romans' Anxieties To Two Things - Bread And Games.

The Arrows Are From Her Dowry.

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Examples Of Vicious Courses Practiced In A Domestic Circle Corrupt More Readily And More Deeply When We Behold Them In Persons In Authority.

One Has No Protecting Power Save Prudence. [lat., Nullum Numen Habes Si Sit Prudentia.]

The Doings Of Men, Their Prayers, Fear, Wrath, Pleasure, Delights, And Recreations, Are The Subject Of This Book.

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When Did Reason Ever Direct Our Desires Or Our Fears?

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Savage Bears Agree With One Another.

There Is Nothing Worse Than Words Of Kindness That Lie.

Rarely Do We Meet In One Combined, A Beauteous Body And A Virtuous Mind.

Censure Pardons The Ravens But Rebukes The Doves. [the Innocent Are Punished And The Wicked Escape.]

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Dare To Do Things Worthy Of Imprisonment If You Mean To Be Of Consequence.

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Here We All Live In A State Of Ambitious Poverty.

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No Man Ever Became Very Wicked All At Once.

The Only Path To A Tranquil Life Is Through Virtue. [lat., Semita Certe Tranquillae Per Virtutem Patet Unica Vitae.]

The Greatest Respect Is Owed To A Child.

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Those Things Please More, Which Are More Expensive.

Who'd Bear To Hear The Gracchi Chide Sedition?

Who Is To Guard The Guards Themselves?

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There Is No Reliance To Be Placed On Appearance.

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What Day Is So Festal It Fails To Reveal Some Theft?

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Only Death Reveals What A Nothing The Body Of Man Is.

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Wisdom Is The Winner Over Good Luck.

A Third Heir Seldom Profits By Ill-gotten Wealth.

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Autumn Is The Harvest Of Greedy Death.

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The Thirst After Fame Is Greater Than That After Virtue; For Who Embraces Virtue If You Take Away Its Rewards?

There Is Great Unanimity Among The Dissolute. [lat., Magna Inter Molles Concordia.]

Generally, Common Sense Is Rare In The (higher) Rank.

To Have Slaved So Many Years For Nothing!

The Abuse Of Cabmen In A Block.

Every Great House Is Full Of Haughty Servants.

The Smell Of Profit Is Clean And Sweet, Whatever The Source.

But With What Incessant And Grievous Ills Is Old Age Surrounded!

If You Are Capable Of Submitting To Insult You Ought To Be Insulted.

No One Becomes Depraved All At Once.

Many Commit The Same Crime With A Very Different Result. One Bears A Cross For His Crime; Another A Crown.

Trust Not To Outward Show. [lat., Fronti Nulla Fides.]

So Much Greater Is Our Thirst For Glory Than For Virtue.

Let Nothing Offensive To The Ear Or The Eye Enter These Thresholds, Within Which Youth Dwells.

A Rare Bird On This Earth, Like Nothing So Much As A Black Swan.

Drooping Along The Ground The Vine Misses Its Widowed Elm.

Virture Offers The Only Path In This Life That Leads To Tranquility.

Satire Is What Closes Saturday Night.

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The Abject Pleasure Of An Abject Mind And Hence So Dear To Poor Weak Woman Kind. [lat., Vindicta Nemo Magis Gaudet, Quam Femina.]

Our Prayers Should Be For A Sound Mind In A Healthy Body. [lat., Orandum Est Ut Sit Mens Sana In Corpore Sano.]

All Things May Be Bought In Rome With Money.

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A Pauper Traveller Will Sing Before A Beggar.

Wisdom Is The Conqueror Of Fortune. [lat., Victrix Fortunae Sapientia.]

Pray For A Healthy Mind In A Healthy Body.

No One Ever Suddenly Became Depraved.

One Globe Seemed All Too Small For The Youthful Alexander.

Youthful Arrogance

But Grant The Wrath Of Heaven Be Great, 'tis Slow. [lat., Ut Sit Magna Tamen Certe Lenta Ira Deorum Est.]

The Only Gain From The Friendship Of The Great Is A Fine Dinner.

It Is But The Weak And Little Mind That Rejoices In Revenge

Like Warmed-up Cabbage Served At Each Repast, The Repetition Kills The Wretch At Last.

From The Disease Of One The Whole Flock Perishes.

There's Scarce A Case Comes On But You Shall Find A Woman's At The Bottom. [lat., Nulla Fere Causa Est In Qua Non Femina Litem Moverit.]

Be A Gentleman Farmer.

The Finishing Stroke Of All Sorrow.

Of The Woes Of Unhappy Poverty, None Is More Difficult To Bear Than That It Heaps Men With Ridicule.

Nature, In Giving Tears To Man, Confessed That He Had A Tender Heart; This Is Our Noblest Quality.

The Traveller With Empty Pockets Will Sing In The Thief 's Face.

Of What Avail Are Pedigrees?

All Wish To Be Learned, But No One Is Willing To Pay The Price.

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Travelers With Naught Sing In The Robber's Face

Where Have You Ever Found That Man Who Stopped Short After The Perpetration Of A Single Crime?

A Lucky Man Is Rarer Than A White Crow.

Remorse Is The Fruit Of Crime.

The Same Dish Cooked Over And Over Again Wears Out The Irksome Life Of The Teacher.

A Man Who Has Nothing Can Whistle In A Robber's Face.

Seldom Do People Discern Eloquence Under A Threadbare Cloak

Lost Money Is Bewailed With Deeper Sighs Than Friends, Or Kindred, And With Louder Cries.

Be Rich For Yourself And Poor To Your Friends.

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Every Crime Will Bring Remorse To The Man Who Committed It

Revenge, We Find, The Abject Pleasure Of An Abject Mind.

Wisdom Triumphs Over Chance.

Vice Deceives Us When Dressed In The Garb Of Virtue.

Have The Courage To Do Something Which Deserves Transportation If You Want To Be Somebody.

The Care Of A Large Estate Is An Unpleasant Thing.

Quis Costodiet Ipsos Custodies? (who Will Watch The Watchers?)

From Where Can Your Authority And License As A Parent Come From, When You Who Are Old, Do Worse Things?

Great Power Which Incites Great Envy, Hurls Some Men To Destruction; They Are Drowned In A Long Splendid Stream Of Honors.

For Women's Tears Are But The Sweat Of Eyes.

An Undying Hatred, And A Wound Never To Be Healed.

Man, Wretched Man, Whene'er He Stoops To Sin, Feels, With The Act, A Strong Remorse Within.

Nature Never Says One Thing, Wisdom Another. [lat., Nunquam Aliud Natura Aliud Sapientia Dicit.]

To Eat At Another's Table Is Your Ambition's Height. [lat., Bona Summa Putes, Aliena Vivere Quadra.]

No Other Protection Is Wanting, Provided You Are Under The Guidance Of Prudence.

This Is My Wish, This Is My Command, My Pleasure Is My Reason

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One Path Alone Leads To A Life Of Peace. The Path Of Virtue.

Now We Suffer The Evils Of A Long Peace; Luxury More Cruel Than War Broods Over Us And Avenges A Conquered World.

Wisdom Overcomes Fortune.

The Grape Gains Its Purple Tinge By Looking At Another Grape. [lat., Uvaque Conspecta Livorem Ducit Ab Uva.]

The Tongue Is The Vile Slave's Vilest Part.

Luxury Is More Deadly Than Any Foe.

Led On By Impulse, And Blind And Ungovernable Desires.

It Is Sheer Madness To Live In Want In Order To Be Wealthy When You Die.

One Gets A Cross For His Crime, The Other A Crown.

Nature And Wisdom Always Say The Same.

Astrology Reveals The Will Of The Gods.

Vice Can Deceive Under The Guise And Shadow Of Virtue.

I Will Have This Done, So I Order It Done; Let My Will Replace Reasoned Judgement.

For The Short-lived Bloom And Contracted Span Of Brief And Wretched Life Is Fast Fleeting Away! While We Are Drinking And Calling For Garlands, Ointments, And Women, Old Age Steals Swiftly On With Noiseless Step.

In The Present State Of The World It Is Difficult Not To Write Lampoons.

Many Suffer From The Incurable Disease Of Writing, And It Becomes Chronic In Their Sick Minds.

He Who Wants To Get Rich Wants To Get Rich Quickly.

The Love Of Popularity Holds You In A Vice.

Conscience, The Executioner, Shaking Her Secret Scourge.

To Keep Up As Good A Cuisine As Your Father.

Many Individuals Have, Like Uncut Diamonds, Shining Qualities Beneath A Rough Exterior.

The Examples Of Vice At Home Corrupt Us More Quickly And Easily Than Others, Since They Steal Into Our Minds Under The Highest Authority.

Many Have An Irresistible Itch For Writing.

The Fisherman Could Perhaps Be Bought For Less Than The Fish.

I Will It, I Order It, Let My Will Stand For A Reason.

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