“Wisdom overcomes fortune.”
“What is the use of your pedigrees?”
“It is difficult not to write satire.”
“No one every suddenly became depraved.”
“A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.”
“All things may be bought in Rome with money.”
“So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.”
“We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.”
“Every great house is full of haughty servants.”
“Even savage animals can agree among themselves.”
“Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.”
“Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.”
“The love of money grows as the money itself grows.”
“Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.”
“Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.”
“Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.”
“It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.”
“A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.”
“Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.”
“The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.”
“A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.”
“Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.”
“The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.”
“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.”
“Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.”
“It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.”
“A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.”
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
“They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.”
“Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.”