Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.