Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.