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.
LORD BYRONI stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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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.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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