Successful villany is called virtue.

Successful villany is called virtue.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

There was not a greater gourmand living.

There was not a greater gourmand living.

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety.

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.