The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?
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.