"For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."

Brecht, Bertolt on sex
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"Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."

Aristotle on goals
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

Barrymore, John on dream
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Love, and do what you like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones."

Bandler, Richard on love
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Barry, Lynda on love
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"Naturally, love's the most distant possibility."

Bataille, Georges on love
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"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."

Bach, Richard on dream
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"Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."

Wilde, Oscar on murder
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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

Aristotle on education
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"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."

Aristotle on empire
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

Shakespeare, William on adversity
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"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."

Shakespeare, William on advice
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"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do."

Wilde, Oscar on moralists
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"Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike."

Wilde, Oscar on morality
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

Wilde, Oscar on motives
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"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."

Battista, Orlando A. on love
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"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on loyalty
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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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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."

Aristotle on freedom
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

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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"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 courage imperils life; fear protects it."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on fear
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"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on genius
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"[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on humankind
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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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"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on mind
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"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on patience
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