It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.
Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.
Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.
I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.
Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.