Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

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

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

Wisdom triumphs over chance.