Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.