Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

A man is the origin of his action.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"