Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?