The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.
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!
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]