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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.
What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.
Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]
Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.
There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.
Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.