A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

No grief reaches the dead.

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.