Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
Constancy is the chimera of love.