When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
We are never so generous as when giving advice.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.