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Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

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Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

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Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

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Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

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To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in who...more