Poems List

The tyranny that forbids you to make the road with pick and shovel is worse than that which prevents you from lolling along it in a carriage and pair.
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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Folly is the direct pursuit of Happiness and Beauty.
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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The difference between the shallowest routineer and the deepest thinker appears, to the latter, trifling; to the former, infinite.
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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
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