Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Integrity is praised, and starves.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
Dedicate one's life to truth.
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.