Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
The man is either crazy or he is a poet.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.