“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire”

“We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.”

“We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore”.”

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

“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”

“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. ”

“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”