“hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.”

“quod defles, illud amasti.”

“-tacito mala vota susiro concipimus"-- Lucan v 94With silent whisperings we,For ill things supplicants be.”

“Even so, when the framework of the world is dissolved, and the final hour, closing so many ages, reverts to pristine chaos, then the fiery stars will drop into the sea, and the earth will shake off the ocean...and the whole distracted firmament will overthrow its laws.”

“Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni”

“Hic Rhodus, hic salta!Here is the rose, here dance!”

“Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant, the extreme, the grotesque, the bizarre, then one's diet should reflect the fact. Life, meals, everything must be as artificial as possible - in fact works of art. So why not begin by eating a few statues?”