It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.