Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
LORD BYRONRoll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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