Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.
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.
Everything in Rome has its price.