Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.