The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap