The only security is courage.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.