Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.