It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.
Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.