Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

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

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.