Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.