Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

To have slaved so many years for nothing!

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

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.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.