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.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.