The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!
The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]