There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so |
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over. |
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. |
There are few women whose charm survives their beauty. |
There are follies as catching as infections. |
There are heroes in evil as well as in good |
There are many remedies to cure love, yet none are infallible. |
There are matters and maladies which at certain times remedies only serve to make worse; true skill consists in knowing when it is dangerous to use them. |
There are men of whom we can never believe evil without having seen it. Yet there are very few in whom we should be surprised to see it. |
There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skilful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt. |
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. |
There are not many cowards who know the whole of their fear. |
There are people who are like farces, which are praised but for a time (however foolish and distasteful they may be). |
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults. |
There are people whose faults become them, others whose very virtues disgrace them. |