A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.
Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.
To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.