A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.