Get money first; virtue comes after.
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.