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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness — its opposite — never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Georges Bataille
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Born:
September 29, 1547
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 68)
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