Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.