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 BYRONOf religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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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 small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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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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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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I learned to love despair.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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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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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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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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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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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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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