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If it be a great misfortune to love another man's wife, be she ever so commonplace, it is an infinitely greater misfortune to love a virtuous woman.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz Without Dogma (1891)

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I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

Without Dogma (1891)

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

Without Dogma (1891)

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

Quo Vadis (1895)

Whoso loves beauty is unable for that very reason to love deformity. One may not believe in our gods, but it is possible to love them...

Quo Vadis (1895)

Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right.

Quo Vadis (1895)

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