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No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence. - [Prudence] No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others. - [Proverbs] Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.] - [Depravity] Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself. - [Proverbs] Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse. - [Proverbs] Of what advantage is it to you, Ponticus, to quote your remote ancestors and to exhibit their portraits? [Lat., Quid prodest, Pontice, longo Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus majorum?] - [Ancestry] Of what avail are pedigrees? - [Proverbs] One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown. - [Proverbs] One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another. - [Punishment] Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. - [Proverbs] Poor and proud. - [Proverbial Phrases] Rare is the union of beauty and modesty. - [Proverbs] Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind. - [Beauty] Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty. - [Poverty] Remorse is the fruit of crime. - [Remorse] Revenge is sweeter than life itself. - [Proverbs] Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind. - [Revenge] Savage bears agree with one another. - [Proverbs] See the effect of commercial intercourse. - [Proverbs] She is kept alive on the milk of asses which she takes with her wherever she goes. - [Proverbs] She stands on tiptoe to be kissed. - [Proverbs] So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue. - [Proverbs] Speak, or be kicked. - [Proverbs] Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. - [Proverbs] Such pains they take to look pretty. - [Proverbs] Displaying page 4 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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