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

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

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

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.