A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.