We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

We forgive just so long as we love.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.