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

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.