7 Quotes Tagged: don-juan

All who joy would win
Must share it — Happiness was born a twin.

Seers can see, for instance, the light of the scarabs' emanations expanding to great size.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Don Juan’s supernatural antagonist hurled those who refuse to repent into lakes of burning brimstone, there to be tormented by devils with horns and tails. Of that antagonist, and of that conception of repentance, how much is left that could be used in a play by me dedicated to you?

"That is no metaphorical statement," he said. "I mean what I say. Big animals like that have the capacity to read thoughts. And I don't mean guess. I mean they know everything directly."

"When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," / They make you dread that they 'II recite them too;
In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; / At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, / But then, no doubt, it equally as true is, / A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis."

and there the stories
Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted
His brush with all the blood of all the sainted.