Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

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.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.