The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
Good temper is an estate for life.
Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.