To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
No one can transcend their own individuality.
No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.