Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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.
Adversity makes men remember God.