The Defects Of The Mind, Like Those

Jealousy Lives Upon Doubts. It Becomes Madness Or Ceases Entirely As Soon As We Pass From Doubt To Certainty.

We Would Frequently Be Ashamed Of Our Good Deeds If People Saw All Of The Motives That Produced Them.

For Envy, Like Lightning, Generally Strikes At The Top Or Any Point Which Sticks Out From The Ordinary Level. Lucretius, De Rerum Natura Our Envy Always Outlives The Felicity Of Its Object.

The Passions Of Youth Are Not More Dangerous To Health Than Is The Lukewarmness Of Old Age.

Too Great Haste To Repay An Obligation Is A Kind Of Ingratitude.