Humanity always becomes a conqueror.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.