Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.