Good Fortune And A Good Disposition Are

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.

Nothing Stings Us So Bitterly As The Loss Of Money

Good Fortune And A Good Disposition Are Rarely Given To The Same Man.

Men Are Seldom Blessed With Good Fortune And Good Sense At The Same Time.

Law Is A Thing Which Is Insensible, And Inexorable, More Beneficial And More Profitious To The Weak Than To The Strong; It Admits Of No Mitigation Nor Pardon, Once You Have Overstepped Its Limits.