We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.