Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not -- there is no weakness in that. An Ideal Husband
Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good. Book IV
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness. The Prophet
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. The Remarkable Rocket
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