Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.