Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.