All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. Votes: 9
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. Votes: 8
Peace visits not the guilty mind. Votes: 8
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. Votes: 7
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.] Votes: 3
The arrows are from her dowry. Votes: 1
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds. Votes: 0
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. Votes: 0
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] Votes: 0
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. Votes: 0
..but who will guard the guardians? Votes: 0
It is difficult not to write satire. Votes: 0
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality. Votes: 0
Who watches the watchmen? Votes: 0
But who guards the guardians? Votes: 0
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. Votes: 0
Be gentle with the young. Votes: 0
Wisdom overcomes fortune. Votes: 0
Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.] Votes: 0
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.] Votes: 0
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.] Votes: 0
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.] Votes: 0
In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.] Votes: 0
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime? Votes: 0
Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.] Votes: 0
The act of God injures no one. Votes: 0
Everything in Rome has its price. Votes: 0
The itch of scribbling. Votes: 0
The finishing stroke of all sorrow. Votes: 0
Wisdom triumphs over chance. Votes: 0
Be a gentleman farmer. Votes: 0
The abuse of cabmen in a block. Votes: 0
Savage bears agree with one another. Votes: 0
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] Votes: 0
Remorse is the fruit of crime. Votes: 0
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue. Votes: 0
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free. Votes: 0
Wisdom is the winner over good luck. Votes: 0
Dedicate one's life to truth Votes: 0
No man becomes bad all at once. Votes: 0
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts. Votes: 0
No one becomes depraved all at once. Votes: 0
Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Votes: 0
Integrity is praised, and starves. Votes: 0
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. Votes: 0
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells. Votes: 0
Of what avail are pedigrees? Votes: 0
Men who only live to eat. Votes: 0