Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.