Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVA strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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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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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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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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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
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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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