Mikhail Lermontov: What good are the passions? For sooner or later their sweet sickness ends when reason speaks up; And life, if surveyed w

What good are the passions? For sooner or later their sweet sickness ends when r — Mikhail Lermontov

What good are the passions? For sooner or later their sweet sickness ends when reason speaks up; And life, if surveyed with cold-blooded regard is stupid and empty — a joke.

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And I, as I lived, in an alien land Will die a slave and an orphan. — Mikhail Lermontov
I would make any sacrifice but this; twenty times I can stake my life, even my h — Mikhail Lermontov
In people's eyes I read Pages of malice and sin. — Mikhail Lermontov
What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Emp — Mikhail Lermontov
Life is earnest, art is gay. — Friedrich Schiller
It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval. — Mark Twain
I loafe and invite my soul. — Walt Whitman
La passion fait souvent un fou du plus habile homme, et rend souvent les plus so — François de La Rochefoucauld
Natural justice is a symbol or expression of usefulness, to prevent one person f — Epicurus
In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flow — John of the Cross
Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone? — Miguel de Cervantes
Thought pure and simple is as near to God as we can get; it is through this that — Samuel Butler