Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.
It is difficult not to write satire.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.