Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.