No path of flowers leads to glory.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

One often has need of one inferior to himself.

Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.