To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

No man becomes bad all at once.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.