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

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.