Scroundrel maxim.

If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway, For his breeches he next day May go to whoop and holloa.

A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.

Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.