The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.