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«If, of thy mortal goods, thou art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one and from the dole, Buy Hyacinths to feed the soul»
«For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
annihilation, entire, fellows, final, folly, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, spite, survives, wickedness
«It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Mortality
| Keywords:
bring home, it No, mortal, reminding, soon enough
«I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity,
Mankind
| Keywords:
blemish, blemished, blemishes, curse, depravities, depravity, expedient, Expedients, instinct, intrinsic, mortal, petty, poisonous, revenge, subterranean, sufficiently
«I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.»
«It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abhorrence, anxious, expect, mortal, opposition, oppositions, persecution, persecutions, reform, reformer, reforming, society
«It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
examined, mortal, terrestrial, torch, torches
«For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life»
«Insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
desperately, insensible, mortal, mortality