In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.