Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.