The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.