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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.

In Olden Times Gold Was Manufactured By Science; Nowadays Science Must Be Renewed By Gold. We Have Fixed The Volatile And We Must Now Volatilize The Fixed—in Other Words, We Have Materialized Spirit, And We Must Now Spiritualize Matter.

Succeed In Not Fearing The Lion, And The Lion Will Fear You.

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.

Everything Lives By Movement, Everything Is Maintained By Equilibrium, And Harmony Results From The Analogy Of Contraries; This Law Is The Form Of Forms.