Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.