Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.