“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.”
Steven Deitz
“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat yet, fool'd by hope, men favour the deceit”
John Dryden
“When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day.”
“Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.”
Imam Ali
“I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.”
Lucien Bouchard
