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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.
Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.
I think with every writer there are two people there.
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.
To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.
Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.
It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike
The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.
I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.
How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.
Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.