Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.