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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

Mikhail Lermontov

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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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Carry Feeling Ideas Life Oneself Storm
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple – without a divinity!
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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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Life People Thinking Worry
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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Afraid Bury Death Decision Feeling Heart Myself
Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Love Unknown Woman
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.
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Eyes Laughter People Place Sorrow
For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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Creation Hope Prepare Terrible Youth
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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Crime Despair Himself
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Dreams Himself Madness Peace Prayer Storm
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Feeling Life Misery Myself Reason
I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Audience Born Failure Myself Success World

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