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

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

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.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.