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Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

You are not to do evil that good may come of it.

In their palate alone is their reason of existence.

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.

Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things ? [Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, Cum facias pejora senex?

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body.

For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.