All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.