Quote by Oscar Wilde
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they wa

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. – Oscar Wilde

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I am as content to die for Gods eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. – John Mason Brown

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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