The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

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

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.