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.
LORD BYRONWhere there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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