Luck cannot change birth.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.
It is grievous to be caught.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.