Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

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

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]