Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
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.
I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.