For in all adversity of fortune, the most unfortunate kind of misfortune is to have been happy.
Rome, Italy
There is not love of life without despair about life.
Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Do you see, then, how much disgrace rolls in the mud, while virtue shines with light? In this, it is clear that rewards never fail the good, nor do punishments ever lack for the wicked.
