Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Be gentle with the young.
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.