Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVEvil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple – without a divinity!
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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