Men who only live to eat.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.