“Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!”
“Daniel's mind is a scorpion stinging itself to death.”
“This man was truly like a scorpion, a poisonous sting when one least expected it.”
“Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly.”
“He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.”
“Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.”