A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]