Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

The covetous man is always poor.

Liberty begets license.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.