Of what avail are pedigrees?
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.
What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?