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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.