An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.