Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
Jealousy is not love, but self-love.
It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
History never embraces more than a small part of reality
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.