Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Quote by Lord Byron
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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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Lord Byron Quotes
- Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
- Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
- Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
- I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
- I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
- Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
- For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
- But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
- Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
- Adversity is the first path to truth.
- We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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