In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.