For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.