It Is When Fortune Is The Most

Envy Is Blind. -caeca Invidia Est

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.

Luck Is Of Little Moment To The Great General, For It Is Under The Control Of His Intellect And His Judgment.

Avarice And Luxury, Those Evils Which Have Been The Ruin Of Every Great State.

A Fraudulent Intent, However Carefully Concealed At The Outset, Will Generally, In The End, Betray Itself.