A fool having enjoyed good fortune like intoxication to a great amount becomes more foolish. Fragment
On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it. Beware of Pity
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. Mark Twain's Notebook
Apparently that does sometimes happen. Apparently even men like Chichikov are transformed into poets for a few moments in their lives: though the word "poet" would be an exaggeration here. Dead Souls
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