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

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.