We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.