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.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.