If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

Rejection is God's way of saying 'Wrong direction.'

Rejection is God's way of saying 'Wrong direction.'

We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love...

We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love...