The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.