Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.]

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.