Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature - Unknown

[794:1] Translated by Samuel Johnson.

(Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims.)

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.[794:2]

We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Maxim 19.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.[794:3]

Maxim 22.