Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.