For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

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.