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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

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The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

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We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and...more

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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despi...more

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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.

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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

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True friendship is self-love at second hand.

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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself,...more

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It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-lov...more

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Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

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Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.