It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
Humility is the worst form of conceit.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.