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22.—Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
38.—We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears.
48.—Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
49.—We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
76.—There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.
89.—Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.
93.—Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
94.—Great names degrade instead of elevating those who know not how to sustain them.
