"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."

Jefferson, Thomas on pleasure
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"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

Jefferson, Thomas on opinions
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"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness."

Jefferson, Thomas on occupation
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"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

Jefferson, Thomas on attitude
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"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."

Connolly, Cyril on memory   

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William on love
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"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

Stendhal, Henri B. on love
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"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?"

O'Brien, Edna on love
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"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love."

Strindberg, J. August on love
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"She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things."

Proust, Marcel on love
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"Saddest Poem

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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"Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."

Duras, Marguerite on love
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"Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?"

Guest, Judith on love
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"We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be."

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"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."

Trotsky, Leon on ends and means
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"The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end."

Unknown, Source on life
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"Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself."

Heinlein, Robert on learning
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"Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."

Malraux, Andre on punishment   

"Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe."

Hardenberg, Novalis on love
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"For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."

Dioum, Baba on love
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

Murdoch, Iris on love
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"I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived."

Mitchell, Margaret on love
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"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere."

Reagan, Ronald on management
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"We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority."

Lawrence, D. H. on generations   

"Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on power   

"Authority is never without hate."

Euripides on authority   

"Kindness out of season destroys authority."

Sandi on kindness   

"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part."

Broch, Hermann on sea
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"It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea."

Davis, William B. on change
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"The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. [Proverbs 13:19]"

Bible on desire
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"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."

Mizner, Wilson on plagiarism   

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."

Seneca on quotations
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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."

Wilde, Oscar on royalty   

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"There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."

Eliot, George on love