Where fear is, happiness is not.
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.