Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.
Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?
The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.
This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.