Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
LORD BYRONMan, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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 among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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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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