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.

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

But who guards the guardians?