An Honor Prudently Declined Often

Wit Is The Flower Of The Imagination.

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

Envy Is Blind. -caeca Invidia Est

Truth, They Say, Is But Too Often In Difficulties, But Is Never Finally Suppressed.

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.