It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.