Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.