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Love is cruel as the grave.
Great men always have dogs.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Great men have always had dogs.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
Youth without faith is a day without sun.
Excess always carries its own retribution.
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
Fancy tortures more people than does reality
Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.