She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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.
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.
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
Who watches the watchmen?
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
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.]
The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
To lay down one's life for the truth.
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