As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.