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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth
Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. read more
Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.
It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.
It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.
Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined.
Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined.
But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love read more
But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly read more
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, read more
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in read more
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.