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1. "A sabedoria, contemplando o género humano, só conduz a estes dois resultados: ao desdém ou à compaixão." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
2. "my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia!" ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
3. "Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism of genius—he wants its bones and flesh." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
4. "We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
5. "And the bubbles of light again rose and fell, and in their disordered, irregular, turbulent maze, mingled with the wan moonlight. And now from these globules themselves as from the shell of an egg, monstrous things burst out; the air grew filled with them; larvae so bloodless and so hideous that I can in no way describe them except to remind the reader of the swarming life which the solar microscope brings before his eyes in a drop of water - things transparent, supple, agile, chasing each other, devouring each other - forms like nought ever beheld by the naked eye. As the shapes were without symmetry, so their movements were without order. In their very vagrancies there was no sport; they came round me and round, thicker and faster and swifter, swarming over my head, crawling over my right arm, which was outstretched in involuntary command against all evil beings. ("The House And The Brain")" ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
6. "Laws die. Books never." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
7. "He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
8. "We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
9. "What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
10. "Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
11. "What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
12. "It shames man not to feel man's human fear,It shames man only if the fear subdue" ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
13. "The spelling and handwriting were those of a man imperfectly educated, but still the language itself was forcible. In the expressions of endearment there was a kind of rough, wild love; but here and there were dark unintelligible hints at some secret not of love,----some secret that seemed of crime. "We ought to love each other," was one of the sentences I remember, "for how everyone else would execrate us if all was known." Again: "Don't let anyone be in the same room with you at night,----you talk in your sleep." And again: "What's done can't be undone; and I tell you there's nothing against us unless the dead could come to life." Here there was underlined in a better handwriting (a female's), "They do!" ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
14. "E era apenas o contraste dessas duas entidades: o Ser e a Sombra, a Luz e as Trevas, que impressionara o jovem com a diferença que havia entre elas, ou seja, o homem e o sobre-humano." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
15. "Há momentos, na vida, em que a sabedoria vem da imaginação e não da prudência." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
16. "Sinto que nas minha veias arde um desejo mais ardente do que o de amor: é o Desejo de não me assemelhar aos da minha espécie, mas de excedê-los, o desejo de penetrar no segredo da sua própria existência e de participar dele, o desejo de um conhecimento sobrenatural e de um poder supraterrestre." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
17. "Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, --it steals away the freshness of life, --it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, --it shuts our souls to our own youth, --and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
18. "On Sleep's soft lap the head without a crown Forgot the gilded trouble it had worn" ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
19. "...to beThine evermore; youth mingled with thy youth,Age with thine age; in thy grave mine; above,Spirit beside thy spirit; - this the loveGod teacheth man to pray for!" ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
20. "True, This! —Beneath the rule of men entirely greatThe pen is mightier than the sword. BeholdThe arch-enchanters wand! — itself is nothing! —But taking sorcery from the master-handTo paralyse the Cæsars, and to strikeThe loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —States can be saved without it!" ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
21. "social infancy, regarded the legends of their faith as a child reads a fairy tale, credulous of all that is supernatural in the agency--unconscious of all that may be philosophical in the moral. It is true, indeed, that dim" ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton
22. "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton

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A depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom."
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