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

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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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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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

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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.

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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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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth....more

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Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

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Man is the cruelest animal.