“We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.” Edmund Burke
“And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-it’s born with us the day that we are born.” Homer
“If you trap the moment before it’s ripe, The tears of repentance you’ll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.” William Blake
“Every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.” Edmund Burke