Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.