An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Another occupation might have been better.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.