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"God save you, gracious audience, since all your graciousness, it seems, depends upon your being entertained."
"We know that life is brief, with no reward but pain, so we desert the fight and give desire reign."
"The man who turns away from pleasure and desire is ignorant of life,of all the strains that tire, of traps that lie in wait, to catch his weary feet; His chosen way will bring misfortune and deceit."
"How happy the man to stupidity born, a gullible credulous, innocent pawn. Unmoved by ambition, untouched by suspicion, he lives his life out."
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
Once my lover, now my friend.
What a cruel thing to pretend.
What a cunning way to condescend.
Once my lover, now my friend.
Oh, you creep up like the clouds.
And you set my soul to ease.
Then you let your love abound.
And you bring me to my knees.
Oh, its evil, babe, the way you let your grace enrapture me.
When, well, you know, Id be insane -
To ever let that dirty game recapture me.
Fiona Apple
"I knew that they were my enemies but they didn't know it. They liked each other, they rubbed elbows, they would even have given me a hand, here and there, because they thought I was like them. But if they could have guessed the least bit of the truth, they would have...[killed]...me."
Jean-Paul Sartre, Erostratus (1948)
"...she does more miscief in this land than if the plague had entered it, for her charming manner and beauty win the hearts of all who try to love and serve her, but her scorn and brutal frankness drive them to despair. So, they don't know what to say to her, but loudly call her cruel and unkind..."
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, 1614
"How can you know that her...[voice was]...not of Satan, and she his mouthpiece?-for does not Satan know the secrets of men and use his knowledge for the destruction of their souls?"
Mark Twain, 1895
"You know the world delights in lovely things,
for men have hearts sweet poetry will win,
and when the truth is seasoned in soft rhyme
it lurs and leads the most reluctant in,
as we brush with honey the brim of a cup, to fool
a feverish child to take his medicine:
he drinks the bitter juice and cannot tell-
but it is a mitake that makes him well."
Torquato Tasso, 1573
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"And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, power hath descended forthfrom thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command. We shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti."
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"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Battle Hymn of the Republic
"Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the sword;
He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger's wealth is stored;
He hath loosed his fateful lightnings, and with woe and death he scored;
His lust is marching on.
I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded him an altar in the Eastern dews and damps;
I have read his doomful mission by the dim and flaring lamps--
His night is marching on.
I have read his bandit gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
'As ye deal with my pretensions, so with you my wrath shall deal;
Let the faithless son of Freedom crush the patriot with his heel;
Lo, Greed is marching on!'
We have legalized the strumpet and are guiding her retreat;
Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgment seat;
O, be swift, ye clods, to answerhim! Be jubilant my feet!
Our God is marching on!
In a sordid slime harmonious, Greed was born in yonder ditch,
With a longing in his bosom-and for others' goods an itch-
Our god is marcjing on."
Mark Twain (1900)