Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?