Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping. Les Misérables
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. Sand and Foam
If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. ... Without God and immortal life? All things are lawful then, they can do what they like? The Karamazov Brothers
And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both? The Trials Of Socrates
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