Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.