“One often has need of one inferior to himself.”

Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Cats know not how to pardon.

O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.

Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.

Lies and literature have always been friends.

Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.

What God does, He does well.

We believe no evil till the evil’s done.

But the shortest works are always the best.

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

Don’t give anyone the power to make you feel inferior.

I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

There’s no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there’d be no challenge. Also, you’d feel inferior.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.