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.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Be a gentleman farmer.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!