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

To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

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

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for ever which possesses primary force and by nature suffers nothing): neither do they consist of bodies; for even in bodies the powers are incorporeal. Neither are they contained by space; for that is a property of bodies. Neither are they separate from the first cause nor from one another, just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul.