Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.
We pardon to the extent that we love.