Only the contemptible fear contempt.
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.