weakness

surgit amari aliquid.

amantes amentes [Terencel; credula res amor est [Ovid]; militat omnis amasius [Ovid]; omnia vincit amor [Vergil]; si vis amari ama [Seneca] the sweetest joy, the wildest woe [Bailey].

the bubble burst.

nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout; oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Cicero].

Davus sum non [Edipus]; "a fool's bolt is soon shot" [Henry V.] clitellae bovi sunt impositae [Cicero]; "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" [Pope]; il n'a ni bouche ni eperon; "the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read" [Pope];

there's nothing in it; "an ocean of dreams without a sound" [Shelley].