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.
LORD BYRONSocrates 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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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.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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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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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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