We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.