Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

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.

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