Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.