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

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

In short, luck’s always to blame.

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

Too many expedients may spoil an affair.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.

Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

We risk all in being too greedy.

We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they’re not like him.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.

Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.