By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

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.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.