Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.