No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.