Comparisons are odorous.

There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]

Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso Suggon l'istesso umore.]

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. [Lat., Hoc ego, tuque sumus: set quod sum, non potes esse: Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest.]