Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

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.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.