Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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Zum Autor"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
"Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power."
"Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests."
"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."
"The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others."