Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?