If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
Everything transitory is but an image.
In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.