Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.

If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.

A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.