Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.