"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. "

Phillips Emo on friend   

"Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake."

Prior, Matthew on hope
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"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten."

Otway, Thomas on honesty   

"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion."

Dirksen, Everett M. on passion   

"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."

Foucault, Michel on punishment   

"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on passion
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"What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so."

Boorman, John on passion
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"False friends are worse than bitter enemies."

Proverb, Scottish on enemies
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"Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything."

Browne, Harry on price   

"It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened."

Sidney, Sir Philip on endurance   

"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on conversation   

"Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself."

Nixon, Richard M. on hatred
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"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

Bronte, Charlotte on friends and friendship
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"An arch never sleeps."

Proverb, Indian on endurance   

"Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on endurance
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"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."

Maltz, Maxwell on self-esteem
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"If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

Newton, Sir Isaac on vision
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"And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience"

Da Vinci, Leonardo on wisdom
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"Time stays long enough for those who use it."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on time
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"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on body
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"Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?"

Robespierre, Maximilien on vengeance   

"On wrongs swift vengeance waits."

Pope, Alexander on vengeance   

"Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow."

Ford, John on vengeance   

"Vengeance has no foresight."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on vengeance
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"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on excellence
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"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on idleness
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"Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

Bible on vengeance   

"Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on night
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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."

More, Hannah on opera   

"Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest."

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington on endurance
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on vengeance
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"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."

Einstein, Albert on acceptance
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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