It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Integrity is praised, and starves.
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.