Juvenal

Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

there is nothing that divine Majesty will not believe concerning itself when lauded to the skies!

But just where will men draw the limit, after they see a high-born lawyer dress in transparent chiffon, to public amazement, to prosecute loose-living women? If they’re whores, bring in a guilty verdict: yet even a proven whore wouldn’t dare to rig herself out like that.

Dedicate one's life to truth

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who watches the watchmen themselves?

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things — bread and circuses!

Vitam impendere vero.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem
perpetuam, saevis inter se convenit ursis.

The question is not put how far extends

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.

Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses, by the Roman satirist Juvenal.

Had we but wisdom, thou wouldst have no Divinity, O Fortune: it is we that make thee into a Goddess!

What's Rome to me, what business have I there?