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- The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- US Declaration of Independence
- So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964)
- If for a tranquil mind you seek,
These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where. - Anonymous
- To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
- Anonymous, Proverb
- If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
- He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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