No law is quite appropriate for all.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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.
Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.