The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.
Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.