Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.