To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.