Events Of Great Consequence Often Spring From

When Tarquin The Proud Was Asked What Was The Best Mode Of Governing A Conquered City, He Replied Only By Beating Down With His Staff All The Tallest Poppies In His Garden.

Passions Are Generally Roused From Great Conflict.

There Is Nothing Worse Than Being Ashamed Of Parsimony Or Poverty.

It Is When Fortune Is The Most Propitious That She Is Least To Be Trusted.

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.