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A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

All wish to know, but few the price will pay.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

But who guards the guardians?

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Be a gentleman farmer.

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

Be gentle with the young.

But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

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.]

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.