We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.