Petty laws breed great crimes.
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.
Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.
Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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