There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.