The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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.
By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.