There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.