It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.