| Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. |
| All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. |
| Luxury is more deadly than any foe. |
| All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. |
| Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses. |
| Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.) |
| But who is to guard the guards themselves |
| Peace visits not the guilty mind. |
| One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue. |
| Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. |
| Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having. |
| A healthy mind in a healthy body. |
| Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. |
| Be gentle with the young. |
| Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. |
| Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. |
| You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. |
| The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses |
| It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. |
