It Is A Wretched Thing

All Wish To Be Learned, But No One Is Willing To Pay The Price.

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.]

Never Does Nature Say One Thing And Wisdom Another.

Of What Use Are Pedigrees, Or To Be Thought Of Noble Blood, Or The Display Of Family Portraits, O Ponticus?

The Traveller With Empty Pockets Will Sing In The Thief 's Face.