Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.