The greatest pleasure anyone can feel is to cause pleasure to their friends.
The world needs justice, not charity.
Mary Shelley
Wherever virtue is found in an eminent degree, it is persecuted; few or none of the famous men of the past were not slandered by malice.
Miguel de Cervantes
Those who, from an unburdened situation, fall into a state of penury that is strange to them, suffer more cruelly than those who have always been miserable.
Euripides
Ridicule dishonors more than dishonor.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
No pleasure is in itself an evil, but certain things capable of engendering pleasure bring with them a greater number of evils than pleasures.
Epicurus