What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.