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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women see more than how they dress.
We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them keep silence.
We were conquered because we failed to understand that Victory is a Spirit, and that it is in ourselves and in ourselves alone that we must attack and destroy Ialdabaoth.
The Revolt of the Angels (1914)
The Emperor Julian's morals were almost those of St. Gregory Nazianzen.
The White Stone (1905)
The elect saw with ravishment the Most High precipitated into Hell, and Satan seated on the throne of the Lord. In conformity with the will of God which had cut them off from sorrow they sang in the ancient fashion the praises of their new Master.
The Revolt of the Angels (1914)
O Lord, my God, I recognise Thy voice!
The Revolt of the Angels (1914)
Powers, Thrones, and Dominations, of all past wars, I wish but to remember the invincible courage that you displayed and the loyalty which you rendered to authority, for these assure me of the steadfastness of the fealty you have just sworn to me.
The Revolt of the Angels (1914)
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Amid the ever lasting gloom Ialdabaoth still retained his lofty mien. Blackened and shattered, terrible and sublime, he glanced upwards at the palace of the King of Heaven with a look of proud disdain, then turned away his head.
The Revolt of the Angels (1914)
And Satan had himself crowned God.
The Revolt of the Angels (1914)
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Mael, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and took a vow to serve the Lord. His time was divided, according to the rule, between the singing of hymns, the study of grammar, and the meditation of eternal truths.
Penguin Island (1908)
It is the duty of the poor to support and sustain the rich in their power and idleness. In doing so, they have to work before the laws' majestic equality, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Misattributed
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.
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Life is too short, and Proust is too long.
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, none ever will.
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Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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