Poems List

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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