The mob will now and then see things in a right light.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.