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Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?
Wanda

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds
they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

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.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

Great men have always had dogs.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

Great men always have dogs.

Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
Wanda

It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.
Wanda

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats ...

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.
Wanda

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

Age is nothing but death that is conscious.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

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.

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety ...

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I - a dog?" said that mute caress.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Love is cruel as the grave.

Youth without faith is a day without sun.

I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

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?

I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.