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It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.
God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.
You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect
Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.
If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.
Camp is like this set-apart world where people go to try to change who they are, and yet change is really scary.
ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.
And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.
Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.
However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.
A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
'Tis always best to tell the truth. At every crisis, I recommend this as a chief contribution to security in life.
Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.
An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.
In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!
The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.
For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.
When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.
When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.
There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.
There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.