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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.
As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.
My declining allure is a source of great sadness to me.
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master
The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.
The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.
Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating.
Success--something your friends will never forgive you.
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
What you already know is merely a good departure point.
Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.
Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.
Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.
Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.
The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.
As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!
True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
When a man offers you his soul, do you give him change?
I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.
People do not start off stupid, they grow to be stupid.
But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.
I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.