Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.
To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.