One may outwit another, but not all the others.

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.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

History never embraces more than a small part of reality

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.