A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
All just laws condemn cruelty.
All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.
Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.
For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.
How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!
In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it
Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.
Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
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