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

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

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