Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.
Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.
Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.