A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.