Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
From abundance springs satiety.
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.