If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.

To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.