We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

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.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.