We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.