The Populace Is Like The Sea Motionless

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

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

Never Is Work Without Reward, Or Reward Without Work.

There Is An Old Saying Which, From Its Truth, Has Become Proverbial, That Friendships Should Be Immortal, Enmities Mortal.