What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONWho then will explain the explanation?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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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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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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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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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The devil was the first democrat
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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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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