Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.