For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Luck cannot change birth.

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.