Equals make the best friends.
Vices are their own punishment
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.