Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.