"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command". - Alan Watts "Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest". - Ann Radcliffe "To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others". - Anne-Sophie Swetchine ...

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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages". "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything". "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them". ...

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"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side". "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in ...

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