Prosperity engenders sloth.
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.