“Among human characteristics, this one is rather common: to be better pleased with other people’s things than with our own, and to love movement and change.” III.9 “Of vanity” (p. 878)
“If there is some honor in weeping for husbands, it belongs only to those who have smiled upon theirs; let those who have wept in his life smile in his death, outwardly as well as inwardly.” II.35 “Of three good women” (p. 683)