In great things it is enough even to have willed.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [Lat., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura, Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.]

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.