For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap