Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.