What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.Collection: Rome
Death renders all equal.Collection: Equal
Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.Collection: Nature
The covetous man is always poor.Collection: Men
Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.Collection: Mean
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.Collection: Change
Whoever desires is always poor.Collection: Latin
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.Collection: Law
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.Collection: Character
Liberty begets license.Collection: Liberty
A severe war lurks under the show of peace.Collection: Peace
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.Collection: Prison
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.Collection: Fall
Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.Collection: Envy
Death is the great leveller.Collection: Revenge
Virtue is indeed its own reward.Collection: Rewards
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.Collection: Men
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.Collection: Affliction
Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.Collection: Luxury
Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.Collection: Virtue
Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.Collection: Lust
Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.Collection: Youth
The best manners are stained by haughtiness.Collection: Haughtiness
Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.Collection: Mean
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.Collection: Mean
Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.Collection: Happiness
Nor is heaven always at peace.Collection: Peace
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.Collection: Passion
The fickle populace always change with the prince.Collection: Fickle
The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.Collection: Kings
Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.Collection: Blessing
Here is a fine field for talent.Collection: Fields