Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.