A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
A gentleman is not disturbed by anything
The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
