I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
In giving advice I advise you, be short.
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.