By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

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

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

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

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

It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.