Haste is blind and improvident.
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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.