Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.