Italian Proverbs

• Who builds upon the people, builds upon sand.
• Illness tells us what we are.
• See Naples and die.
• Bed is the poor man's opera.

- quoted in Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell

• The People want to be deceived.

- Roman Epigraph

• To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

- favourite proverbial saying, by Tiberius, quoted in Suetoninus Lives of the Caesars