Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
But who guards the guardians?
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.