We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.