Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.

Everything was new, everything was exciting. We were playing house, it seemed, playing at being grownups. When you’re in love, I suppose everything feels like a game.

Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

Put on the company hat.

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.