Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.