Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
Adversity makes men remember God.
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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.
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.