No law is quite appropriate for all.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.