All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

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

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.