Quotes from Gaius Petronius

One good turn deserves another.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

Not worth his salt.

He has joined the great majority.

My heart was in my mouth.

The studied spontaneity of Horace.

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

A man must have his faults.

We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

What power has law where only money rules.