It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.