We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.