"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."

Jackson, Andrew on mind   

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

Socrates on love
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"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

Socrates on listening
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"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

Socrates on hatred
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"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government."

Socrates on government
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"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

Socrates on feminism
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"Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think."

Socrates on joy
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"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

Socrates on desire
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"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

Alexander The Great on choice   

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

Alexander The Great on impossibility
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"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."

Jackson, Andrew on strategies