We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.