You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
Those they praise, but they read the others.
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?