However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.