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Weakness Ever Sympathizes With Vice, Because Vice Is A Weakness Which Assumes The Mask Of Strength. Madness Holds Reason In Horror, And On All Subjects It Delights In The Exaggerations Of Falsehood. The Cause Of All Bewitchments, The Poison Of All Philtres, The Power Of All Sorcerers Are There.

Passing Beauties Are Only The Fugitive Reflections Of The Eternal. All Beauty Alters And All Life Melts Away; In Short, Everything Passes With Marvelous Rapidity; Beautiful Helen Of Troy Has Become A Toothless Skull, Then A Handful Of Dust, Then Nothing.

Judge Not; Speak Hardly At All; Love And Act.

One Can Only Define The Unknown By Its Supposed And Supposable Relations With The Known.

When One Creates Phantoms For Oneself, One Puts Vampires Into The World, And One Must Nourish These Children Of A Voluntary Nightmare With One's Blood, One's Life, One's Intellegence, And One's Reason, Without Ever Satisfying Them.