"The coward threatens when he is safe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Coward and Cowardice
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on Hope
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"Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?"

Proust, Marcel on Neurosis
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"Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?"

Goldman, Emma on Marriage
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"Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing."

Goldman, Emma on Jealousy
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"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds."

Dryden, John on Love
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"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

Donne, John on Love
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"Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild."

Delp, Alexis on Love
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"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."

Davis, Bette on Love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on Love
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"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable."

Breton, Andre on Love
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on Love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on Love
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"Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so."

Hubbard, Elbert on Love
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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

Irving, Washington on Love
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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on Love
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"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."

Borges, Jorge Luis on Love
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on Love
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"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on Love
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"People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus."

Proust, Marcel on Love
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"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."

Luce, Clare Boothe on Love
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"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

Levine, Stephen on Love
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"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

Lessing, Doris on Love
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"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Love
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"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."

Karr, Alphonse on Love
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"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"

Bronte, Emily on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

Capote, Truman on Friends and Friendship
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"What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

Crane, Frank on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!"

Eastman, Charles Alexander on Friends and Friendship
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"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."

Grant, Ulysses S. on Friends and Friendship
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"Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better."

Howe, Edgar Watson on Friends and Friendship
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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on Friends and Friendship
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"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."

Bennett, Arnold on Friends and Friendship
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"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."

Auden, W. H. on Friends and Friendship
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"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."

Lamb, Charles on Friends and Friendship
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"When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog."

Franklin, Miles on Friends and Friendship
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"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Byron, Lord on Friends and Friendship
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"When you are seventeen you aren't really serious."

Rimbaud, Arthur on Adolescence
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