Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.