| 1 | Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are luxurious. | |
| 2 | Lao Tzu rebuked the dissipated rulers living in extravagance at his time as bandit chieftains. | |
| 3 | Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence; a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness. | |
| 4 | Long is the way the leads of the voluptuary to the severities of life. | |
| 5 | It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow. |