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The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
All wish to know, but few the price will pay.
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
Those things please more, which are more expensive.
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.