If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

More laws, less justice.

After victory, you have more enemies.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)