The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
We are all gathered to the same fold.
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.