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.
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.