“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter X: The Leech and His Patient
“A loyal-hearted man rejoices at a friend's advancement; a disloyal man cries out in sorrow when something pleasant befalls his friend and he is there to see it.”
— Wolfram von Eschenbach, book Parzival
Der getriwe ist friundes êren vrô:
der ungetriwe wâfenô
rüefet, swenne ein liep geschiht
sînem friunde und er daz siht.
Bk. 13, st. 675, line 17; p. 337.
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