A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
LORD BYRONWhat is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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I learned to love despair.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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