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#1

“¡Ah! Por doquiera que fui,
la razón atropellé,
la virtud escarnecí,
y a la justicia burlé.
Y emponzoñé cuanto vi,
y a las cabañas bajé,
y a los palacios subí,
y los claustros escalé;
y pues tal mi vida fue,
no, no hay perdón para mí”
― Zorrilla Jose, Don Juan Tenorio

tags: evil, forgiveness, mercy

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#2

“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: polonius

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#3

“Aquello a lo que uno está acostumbrado es un paraíso.”
― Goethe W Johan

tags: customs, home, paradise

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#4

“Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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#5

“It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

tags: beauty-longing

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#6

“but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

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#7

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
― C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

811 likes

#8

“Malicious men may die, but malice never.”
― Molière, Tartuffe

tags: malice, mankind

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#9

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

tags: family, love

476 likes

#10

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: goodness, simplicity, truth

1041 likes

#11

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: inspirational, love

636 likes

#12

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: weird-isn-t-it

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#13

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield

1228 likes

#14

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

608 likes

#15

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: inferno-canto-vi-105

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#16

“Death cannot be what Life is, Child; the cup
Of Death is empty, and Life hath always hope.”
― Euripides, The Trojan women of Euripides

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#17

“My legs are trembling, but I won't fall”
― Euripides, The Trojan Women

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#18

“pues así llegué a saber que toda la dicha humana, en fin, pasa como sueño, y quiero hoy aprovecharla”
― Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La Vida es Sueño

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#19

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: patience, time

1427 likes

#20

“Sólo quería decir que todas las ideas que luego son causa de grandes consecuencias son siempre muy sencillas.”
― Tolstoi Leon

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#21

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: life

1959 likes

#22

“... the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

tags: friendship

609 likes

#23

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankenstein, monster

477 likes

#24

“I am malicious because I am miserable”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankenstein, malicious, miserable

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#25

“¡Aparta, piedra fingida!
Suelta, suéltame esa mano,
que aún queda el último grano
en el reloj de mi vida.
Suéltala, que si es verdad
que un punto de contrición
da a un alma la salvación
de toda una eternidad,
yo, santo Dios, creo en ti;
si es mi maldad inaudita,
tu piedad es infinita…
¡Señor, ten piedad de mí!”
― José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio

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#26

“Suéltala, que si es verdad,
que un punto de contrición,
da a un alma la salvación,
de toda una eternidad,
yo, santo Dios, creo en ti;
si es mi maldad inaudita,
tu piedad es infinita,
¡Señor, ten piedad de mí!”
― Zorrilla Jose, Don Juan Tenorio

tags: mercy, repentance

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#27

“...es el Dios de la clemencia,
el Dios de Don Juan Tenorio.”
― Zorrilla Jose

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#28

“Misterio es que en comprensión,
no cabe de criatura,
y sólo en vida más pura,
los justos comprenderán,
que el amor salvó a don Juan,
al pie de la sepultura.”
― Zorrilla Jose, Don Juan Tenorio

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#29

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: heart, homer, the-iliad

915 likes

#30

“from desire I rush to satisfaction; from satisfaction I leap to desire.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

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