There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Every great house is full of haughty servants.