Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.
The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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 takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.