Better late than never.
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.
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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.