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

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The Wise Man Sets Bounds Even To His Innocent Desires.

No God Is Absent Where Prudence Dwells.

Let The Straight-limbed Laugh At The Club-footed, The White Skinned At The Blackamoor.

A Lucky Man Is Rarer Than A White Crow.

Some Men Make Fortunes, But Not To Enjoy Them For, Blinded By Avarice, They Live To Make Fortunes.

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

Luxury Is More Deadly Than Any Foe.

He Who Meditates A Crime Secretly Within Himself Has All The Guilt Of The Act.

Majestic Mighty Wealth Is The Holiest Of Our Gods.

Even Savage Animals Can Agree Among Themselves.

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

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

Who'd Bear To Hear The Gracchi Chide Sedition?

One Man Meets An Infamous Punishment For That Crime Which Confers A Diadem On Others.

Trust Me No Tortures Which The Poets Feign Can Match The Fierce Unutterable Pain He Feels, Who Night And Day Devoid Of Rest Carries His Own Accuser In His Breast.

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

The Itch Of Scribbling.

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

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

Satire Is What Closes Saturday Night.

Be Rich For Yourself And Poor To Your Friends.

It Is Difficult Not To Write Satire.

Do You Expect, Forsooth, That A Mother Will Hand Down To Her Children Principles Which Differ From Her Own?

The Skilful Class Of Flatterers Praise The Discourse Of An Ignorant Friend And The Face Of A Deformed One.

Many Have An Irresistible Itch For Writing.

Let Me Moderate Our Sorrows. The Grief Of A Man Should Not Exceed Proper Bounds, But Be In Proportion To The Blow He Has Received. [lat., Ponamus Nimios Gemitus: Flagrantior Aequo Non Debet Dolor Esse Viri, Nec Vulnere Major.]

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.]

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

The Abuse Of Cabmen In A Block.

The Arrows Are From Her Dowry.

The Guilty Are Alarmed And Turn Pale At The Slightest Thunder.

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

Pray For A Healthy Mind In A Healthy Body.

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

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

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

Never Does Nature Say One Thing And Wisdom Another. Variant: Wisdom And Nature! Are They Not The Same? Variant: Nature And Wisdon Always Speak Alike.

To Lay Down One's Life For The Truth.

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

We Are All Easily Taught To Imitate What Is Base And Depraved. [lat., Dociles Imitandis Turpibus Ac Pravis Omnes Sumus.]

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

Be A Gentleman Farmer.

All Things May Be Bought In Rome With Money.

Now That No One Buys Our Votes, The Public Has Long Since Cast Off Its Cares; For The People That Once Bestowed Commands, Consulships, Legions, And All Else, Now Meddles No More And Longs Eagerly For Just Two Things - Bread And Circuses.

There's A Lust In Man, No Charm Can Tame, Of Loudly Publishing Our Neighbor's Shame.

She Knows No Difference 'twixt Head And Privities Who Devours Immense Oysters At Midnight.

Death Alone Discloses How Insignificant Are The Puny Bodies Of Men.

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

Wisdom Overcomes Fortune.

Nature And Wisdom Always Say The Same.

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

Rarely They Rise By Virtue's Aid Who Lie Plunged In The Depth Of Helpless Poverty.

They Do Not Easily Rise Whose Abilities Are Repressed By Poverty At Home. [lat., Haud Facile Emergunt Quorum Virtutibus Obstat Res Angusta Domi.]

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

Astrology Reveals The Will Of The Gods.

Seldom Do People Discern Eloquence Under A Threadbare Cloak

The Love Of Popularity Holds You In A Vice.

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

All Arts His Own, The Hungry Greekling Counts; And Bid Him Mount The Skies, The Skies He Mounts.

We Are Too Quick To Imitate Depraved Examples.

See The Effect Of Commercial Intercourse.

Travelers With Naught Sing In The Robber's Face

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.

Beasts Of Like Kind Will Spare Those Of Kindred Spots.

From The Disease Of One The Whole Flock Perishes.

What Man Have You Ever Seen Who Was Contented With One Crime Only?

The Tongue Is The Vile Slave's Vilest Part.

The Brief Span Of Our Poor Unhappy Life To Its Final Hour Is Hastening On; And While We Drink And Call For Gay Wreaths, Perfumes, And Young Girls, Old Age Creeps Upon Us, Unperceived.

The Noiseless Foot Of Tune Steals Swiftly By And Ere We Dream Of Manhood, Age Is Nigh.

Two Things Only The People Actually Desire: Bread And Circuses.

The Sicilian Tyrants Never Devised A Greater Punishment Than Envy.

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

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

The Face, Not The Woman Is The Attraction.

The Thirst For Fame Is Much Greater Than That For Virtue; For Who Would Embrace Virtue Itself If You Take Away Its Rewards? [lat., Tanto Major Famae Sitis Est Quam Virtutis: Quis Enim Virtutem Amplectitur Ipsam Praemia Se Tollas.]

When A Man's Life Is At Stake No Delay Is Too Long. [lat., Nulla Unquam De Morte Cunctatio Longa Est.]

Conscience, The Executioner, Shaking Her Secret Scourge.

I Only Feel, But Want The Power To Paint.

No Man Becomes Bad All At Once.

We Do Not Commonly Find Men Of Superior Sense Amongst Those Of The Highest Fortune.

There Are Many Things Which May Not Be Uttered By Men In Threadbare Coats.

The Greatest Hardship Of Poverty Is That It Tends To Make Men Ridiculous.

Vice Deceives Us When Dressed In The Garb Of Virtue.

Make All Fair Allowance For The Mistakes Of Youth.

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

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

Sit Mens Sana In Corpore Sano (a Healthy Mind In A Healthy Body)

Whenever Fortune Wishes To Joke, She Lifts People From What Is Humble To The Highest Extremity Of Affairs.

A Sound Mind In A Sound Body Is A Thing To Be Prayed For.

Men Who Ape The Saint And Play The Sinner.

Every Vice Makes Its Guilt The More Conspicuous In Proportion To The Rank Of The Offender. [lat., Omne Animi Vitium Tanto Conspectius In Se Crimen Habet, Quanto Major Qui Peccat Habetur.]

It Is A Wretched Thing To Rest Upon The Fame Of Others, Lest, The Supporting Pillar Being Removed, The Superstructure Should Collapse In Ruin.

The Dowry, Not The Wife, Is The Object Of Attraction.

Luxury Destroys More Efficiently Than War.

Already Long Ago, From When We Sold Our Vote To No Man, The People Have Abdicated Our Duties; For The People Who Once Upon A Time Handed Out Military Command, High Civil Office, Legions — Everything, Now Restrains Itself And Anxiously Hopes For Just Two Things: Bread And Circuses.

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

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

Few People Can Distinguish The Genuinely Good From The Reverse.

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

By His Own Verdict No Guilty Man Was Ever Acquitted.

Do Not Pluck The Beard Of A Dead Lion. [lat., Noli Barbam Vellere Mortuo Leoni.]

Men Who Only Live To Eat.

O Poverty, Thy Thousand Ills Combined Sink Not So Deep Into The Generous Mind, As The Contempt And Laughter Of Mankind.

Be Gentle With The Young.

Nothing Is So Intolerable As A Woman With A Long Purse.

For He, Who Gave This Vast Machine To Roll, Breathed Life In Then, In Us A Reasoning Soul; That Kindred Feelings Might Our State Improve, And Mutual Wants Conduct To Mutual Love.

This Precept Descended From Heaven: Know Thyself.

What Is More Cruel Than A Tyrant's Ear?

A Woman Is Most Merciless When Shame Goads On Her Hate

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

No Nice Extreme A True Italian Knows; But Bid Him Go To Hell, To Hell He Goes.

Honesty's Praised, Then Left To Freeze.

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

Whatever Is Committed From A Bad Example, Is Displeasing Even To Its Author.

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

When Did Reason Ever Direct Our Desires Or Our Fears?

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

Let Him Love None And Be By None Beloved!

A Pauper Traveller Will Sing Before A Beggar.

But Who Guards The Guardians?

Common Sense Among Men Of Fortune Is Rare.

Honesty Is Praised And Left In The Cold.

Poverty Is Bitter, But It Has No Harder Pang Than That It Makes Men Ridiculous.

An Incurable Itch For Scribbling Takes Possession Of Many, And Grows Inveterate In Their Insane Breasts.

Remorse Is The Fruit Of Crime.

Everything In Rome Has Its Price.

Of What Use Are Pedigrees, Or To Be Thought Of Noble Blood, Or The Display Of Family Portraits, O Ponticus?

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

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

It Is Not Easy For Men To Rise Whose Qualities Are Thwarted By Poverty.

The Traveler Without Money Will Sing Before The Robber. [lat., Cantabit Vacuus Coram Latrone Viator.]

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

To Keep Up As Good A Cuisine As Your Father.

Bid The Hungry Greek Go To Heaven, He Will Go. [lat., Graeculus Esuriens In Coelum, Jusseris, Ibit.]

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

When The Mischief Is Done The Door Is Shut.

It Is A Wretched Thing To Live On The Fame Of Others.

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

We Deem Those Happy Who, From The Experience Of Life, Have Learned To Bear Its Ills, Without Being Overcome By Them.

Money Lost Is Bewailed With Unfeigned Tears. [lat., Ploratur Lacrimis Amissa Pecunia Veris.]

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

The Gods Alone Know, What Kind Of Wife A Man Will Have.

This Is His First Punishment, That By The Verdict Of His Own Heart No Guilty Man Is Acquitted.

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

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

Your Prayer Must Be For A Healthy Mind In A Sound Body. Ask For A Brave Soul That Has No Fear Of Death, Deems Length Of Life The Least Of Nature's Gifts And Is Able To Bear Any Kind Of Sufferings, Knows Neither Wrath Nor Desire And Believes The Woes And Hard Labors Of Hercules Better Than The Loves And Feasts And Downy Cushions Of Sardanapalus. Reveal What You Are Able To Give Yourself; The Only Path To A Life Of Tranquility Lies Through Virtue.

It Is Unmistakable Madness To Live In Poverty Only To Die Rich.

Bad Men Hate Sin Through Fear Of Punishment; Good Men Hate Sin Through Their Love Of Virtue.

The Short Bloom Of Our Brief And Narrow Life Flies Fast Away. While We Are Calling For Flowers And Wine And Women, Old Age Is Upon Us.

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

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

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

To Have Slaved So Many Years For Nothing!

Never Does Nature Say One Thing And Wisdom Another.

For The Gods, Instead Of What Is Most Pleasing, Will Give What Is Most Proper. Man Is Dearer To Them Than He Is To Himself.

No One Ever Suddenly Became Depraved.

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

Fond Man! Though All The Heroes Of Your Line Bedeck Your Halls, And Round Your Galleries Shine In Proud Display; Yet Take This Truth From Me-- Virtue Alone Is True Nobility!

No Man Ever Became Very Wicked All At Once.

Remote Though Your Farm May Be, It's Something To Be The Lord Of One Green Lizard-and Free.

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

The People That Once Bestowed Commands, Consulships, Legions, And All Else, Now Concerns Itself No More, And Longs Eagerly For Just Two Things: Bread And Circuses!

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

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

When Your Armour Is On, It Is Too Late To Retreat.

Every Great House Is Full Of Haughty Servants.

Wisdom Is The Winner Over Good Luck.

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

Savage Bears Agree With One Another.

Ask For A Valiant Heart Which Has Banished The Fear Of Death, Which Looks Upon Length Of Days As One Of The Least Of Nature's Gifts; Which Is Able To Suffer Every Kind Of Hardship, Is Proof Against Anger, Craves For Nothing, And Reckons The Trials And Gruelling Labours Of Hercules As More Desirable Blessings Than The Amorous Ease And The Banquets And Cushions Of Sardanapallus. The Things That I Recommend You Can Grant To Yourself.

All Wish To Know, But Few The Price Will Pay.

Rare Is The Union Of Beauty And Purity. [lat., Rara Est Adeo Concordia Formae Atque Pudicitiae.]

Such Men As Fortune Raises From A Mean Estate To The Highest Elevation By Way Of A Joke.

Nature Confesses That She Has Bestowed On The Human Race Hearts Of Softest Mould, In That She Has Given Us Tears.

Every Crime Will Bring Remorse To The Man Who Committed It

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

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

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

They Whose Sole Bliss Is Eating Can Give But That One Brutish Reason Why They Live.

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? - Who Will Watch The Watchers?

A Third Heir Seldom Profits By Ill-gotten Wealth.

Dat Veniam Corvis, Vexat Censura Columbas. - Censure Acquits The Raven, But Pursues The Dove.

The Venal Herd. [lat., Venale Pecus.]

Give Them Bread And Circuses And They Will Never Revolt

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.

It Is Sheer Folly When All Is Gone To Lose Even One's Passage Money.

The Man Whose Purse Is Empty Can Cheerfully Sing Before The Robber.

Nothing Is More Intolerable Than A Wealthy Woman.

Rare Is The Union Of Beauty And Purity.

Cheerless Poverty Has No Harder Trial Than This, That It Makes Men The Subject Of Ridicule. [lat., Nil Habet Infelix Paupertas Durius In Se Quam Quod Ridiculos Homines Facit.]

For Whoever Meditates A Crime Is Guilty Of The Deed.

No One Ever Became Thoroughly Bad In One Step.

There Is Nothing Worse Than Words Of Kindness That Lie.

Drooping Along The Ground The Vine Misses Its Widowed Elm.

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

The Care Of A Large Estate Is An Unpleasant Thing.

Fortune Can, For Her Pleasure, Fools Advance, And Toss Them On The Wheels Of Chance.

Trust To A Plank, Draw Precarious Breath, At Most Seven Inches From The Jaws Of Death.

Integrity Is Praised, And Starves.

No One Ever Reached The Worst Of A Vice At One Leap

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