• Aging and bad breath are things you notice only in other people.
• Don't take notes. We forget ideas for a reason.
• Love is more voluntary at the beginning than at the end; friendship the opposite.
• During youth, they prefer death without aging to aging without death; but they will practice the reverse.
• There are some people about whom whatever you may say will be true.
• In a good conversation, it is often the most significant that will remain undiscussed.
• By dying, most of those we call generous will act stingy; all of those we call close-fisted will show great generosity.
• It is hard to engage people without seeing them in the light of either the most favorable or the most unfavorable of the impressions we've ever had of them.
• Virtue is having one, or more than two, partners.
• It is rare for admiration to not decay.
• It is foolish to attempt to correct the crowd about their false beliefs; they will go on to formulate new false beliefs.
• "My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism.
