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Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]
Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.
As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.
Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.