Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.