Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.