For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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?
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.