The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.