Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power

237. — No one should be praised for his goodness if he has not strength enough to be wicked. All other goodness is but too often an idleness or powerlessness of will.

for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.

Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

He who is not enviable is not admirable.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.

No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.

No man ought to glory except in that which is his own.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.