But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.