He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
The same night awaits us all.
Get money first; virtue comes after.
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.