The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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.
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
Great contests generally excite great animosities.