Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

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