The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. There is a Moral Sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it. It is easier to stay out than get out.
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. Nothing is so ignorant as man's left hand, except a lady's watch. Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. A book which people praise and don't read. Man is the Only Animal that Blushes.