Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

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

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

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

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

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

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.