Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

Ambition aspires to descend

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.