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As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
I collected some of their Proverbs. -
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
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I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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It is silliness to live when to live is torment.
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory
African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017) -
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
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