Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.