Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.