Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.

We should often be ashamed of our very best actions if the world only saw the motives which caused them.

We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others.

Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt.

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

Usually we only praise heartily those who admire us.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are.

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

A weakling is incapable of sincerity.

We forgive so long as we love.

The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it the most yet obliged to praise it.

There is more self-love than love in jealousy.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.