If the wise few praise you, do not heed the scorn of fools.
Envy:... an eagle that tears apart without ceasing the one who shelters him in his bosom.
Undeserved admiration is an insult.
I have always had the courage to count envy attracted by virtue as glory, and not hate.
Man lives not only from what he creates, but also from what he knows how to admire.
Admiration: ... essentially disinterested feeling... The sign of a high reason served by a noble heart.
Man defends himself from the envy of scoundrels, as the eagle avoids snares by flying very high. Fools have nothing but slander; bad words are like the greedy animal that always ends up eating itself.
Human envy is made up in such a way that any praise given to someone else seems to us to harm us.
If certain praises seem too high to you, consider them flattering.
The envious... his own enemy; he prepares his own troubles.
Envy... a feeling that even friendship doesn't always extinguish.
Nothing is harder to forgive than the merits of another.
Nothing gnaws at the soul more terribly and drains it than trouble and misery, the food usually only of exhausted or on the verge of exhausting individualities. Nothing is higher than whole-hearted praise, and nothing more fruitful for the soul than full admiration for that which has in one way or another reached perfection.
It is innate in the nature of certain people to despise and tyrannize. On those smaller than them; only by such a means can creatures of this sort be compensated for the servile submission they always show to their masters.
People can hardly bear the superiority of another man.
If we have admired someone by finding him perfect and then discover his faults, it is not easy for us to judge him fairly. Our vanity is also at play, for we have been deceived and do not want to admit it, and it flatters us to believe that we have been deceived from the inside, thus throwing all the blame, anger and a kind of hatred on the unfortunate person, who in fact contributed nothing to the fact that we were quick to take him for what he did not ask to be taken.
Flatterers always attach themselves to the ambitious, for he is the only one to whom flattery gives inexpressible pleasure.
Many of our fellows seem giants to us only because, measuring ourselves against them, we sit on our knees.
He who despises praise deserves to be praised for this at least.
Faint praise of a beautiful thing is an offense.
Flattery:...prepayment of the treachery that is in store for you.
Eulogy bores any man who is not himself the object.
They demean others who cannot lift themselves up.
Whatever someone forgives you, only one thing not: be greater than him.
By praising the one who praises you, you also praise yourself.
Your anger makes the world bitter, but only for you.
The envious does not feel well alone; only the misfortune of others can make his joy.
Many people think they can make a living without breaking the bank in a big house.
Envy - the faithful shadow of admiration.
No quality will bring a man so many friends as sincere admiration of another's qualities. This shows magnanimity, honor, gentleness, and joyful recognition of another's merits.