We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.