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Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

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

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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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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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