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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.



Life is one long process of getting tired.



A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.



Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.



There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.



All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.



A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.



Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.



We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself



Oaths are but words, and words but wind.



Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.



Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.



Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.



Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers



Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.








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