A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.
An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.