True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

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.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.