
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist—to sympathise with a friend's success.
De profundis, from the original, unexpurgated German ed., tr. by Henry Zick - página 179, Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lady Wilde - A. R. Keller & Company, Incorporated, 1907