Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
Comparisons are odious.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.