Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. - Jean de La Fontaine

... ’argent vient-il comme il s’en va ? Je n’y touchois jamais. Dites-moy donc de grace, Reprit l’autre, pourquoy vous vous affligez tant, Puiſque vous ne touchiez jamais à cet argent : Mettez une pierre à la place, Elle vous vaudra tout autant.

This gentleman, with knowing air, Survey'd

... a wise man knows Gold comes but slowly, quickly goes; I never touched it." "Gracious me!" Replied the other, "why, then, be So wretched? for if you say true, You never touched it, plain the case; Put back that stone upon the place, 'Twill be the very same to you."