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What we feel is mortal, and won't come again.
A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.
Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war.
It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
An error becomes an error when born as truth.
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Death to the killers, bringing light to life.
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
Make something beautiful before you are dead.
Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.
Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
To live in the hearts of others is not to die
Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.
Such a gift might be easily taken back again.
I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
No one can keep a secret better than a child.
I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.
People do not read stupidities with impunity.
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
Endure and save yourselves for happier times.
A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.
Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes
The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.
Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
God is gracious to some very peculiar people.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.
The work for giants...to serve well the guns!
What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.
The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.