A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.