The way to rise is to obey and please.
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.