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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Sir Arthur Eddington

One of the tortures of jealousy is that it can never turn its eyes away from the thing that pains it.

George Eliot

Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, carries his own accuser in his breast.

Juvenal

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Lucretius

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Lord Byron

You have someone who the United States has decided is no longer an enemy combatant and is not dangerous, and we sent him back to a country that regularly puts people in secret detention and tortures them.

Barbara Olshansky

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Nicholas Chamfort

The soldier who tortures can now simply state that he or she was following orders.

Jennifer Harbury