The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

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

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

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.