The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.
The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.