. . . a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.
Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.