Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
A woman always has her revenge ready.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.