Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.