To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.