No Nice Extreme A True Italian Knows;

Nobody Ever Became Depraved All At Once. [lat., Nemo Repente Fuit Turpissimus.]

The Doings Of Men, Their Prayers, Fear, Wrath, Pleasure, Delights, And Recreations, Are The Subject Of This Book.

The Sicilian Tyrants Never Devised A Greater Punishment Than Envy.

The Love Of Pelf Increases With The Pelf. [lat., Crescit Amor Nummi Quantum Ipsa Pecunia Crescit.]

For The Short-lived Bloom And Contracted Span Of Brief And Wretched Life Is Fast Fleeting Away! While We Are Drinking And Calling For Garlands, Ointments, And Women, Old Age Steals Swiftly On With Noiseless Step.