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.
From abundance springs satiety.
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.