The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.