Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.