It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

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.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

The only thing constant in life is change