A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.