"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca on death
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"A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."

Conrad, Joseph on secrets   

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"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor."

Seneca on death
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."

Seneca on death
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"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."

Shaw, George Bernard on death   

"How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on death
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"No man will work for your interests unless they are his."

Seabury, David on selfishness   

"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies."

Tertullian on selfishness   

"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it."

Collins, Joseph on emotions
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"Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also."

Browning, Robert on emotions
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"You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body."

Guccione, Bob on seduction
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"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."

Stendhal, Henri B. on seduction   

"The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid."

Aurelius, Marcus on wisdom
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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

Bacon, Francis on wisdom
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"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another."

Chesterfield, Lord on wit   

"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."

Allen, James on sacrifice
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"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."

Shaw, George Bernard on sacrifice   

"Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself."

Whitman, Walt on sacrifice   

"The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no."

Bangs, Lester on emotions
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"What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find."

Breton, Andre on secrets   

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

Johnson, Samuel on pain   

"In solitude, where we are least alone."

Byron, Lord on solitude
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"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone."

Quincey, Thomas De on solitude
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"Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty."

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"One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout."

Unknown, Source on science
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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

Byron, Lord on mystery
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"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."

Bataille, Georges on beauty   

"The greatest evil is physical pain."

Augustine, St. on pain
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"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

Beecher, Henry Ward on pain   

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. [Revelation]"

Bible on pain
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"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust."

Sade, Marquis De on lust
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"Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising."

Lahr, John on advertising   

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

Godard, Jean-Luc on art   

"One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve."

Thoreau, Henry David on flowers
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"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."

Shenstone, William on lies and lying
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"If you would live innocently, seek solitude."

Syrus, Publilius on innocence
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