Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
—Balzac.
1366
Most just it is that he who breweth mischief should have the first draught of it himself.
—Jemmat.
1367
CONSTANTINE AND THE MISER.
Constantine the Great, born 274 A. D., in order to reclaim a miser, took a lance and marked out a space of ground the size of a human body and said to him: "Add heap to heap, accumulate riches upon riches, extend the bounds of your possessions, conquer the whole world, and in a few days, such a spot as this, will be all that you will have."
1368
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.