No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.