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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.  
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.  
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportun...  
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.  
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.  
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the bet...  
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay...  
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do...  
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, h...  
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lack...  
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.  
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.  
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at mat...  
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it ma...  
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.  
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of nat...  
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of th...  
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.  
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.  
The perfection of art is to conceal art.  
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.  
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish...  
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of vir...  
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.  
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.  
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.  
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.  
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than m...  
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where w...  
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opport...  
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin ...