He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.