Favor And Honor Sometimes Fall More Fitly

No Man Likes To Be Surpassed By Those Of This Own Level.

It Is Easy At Any Moment To Resign The Possession Of A Great Fortune; To Acquire It Is Difficult And Arduous

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.

A Gentleman Is Mindful No Less Of The Freedom Of Others Than Of His Own Dignity.

Envy Is Blind, And She Has No Other Quality Than That Of Detracting From Virtue