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Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be read more
To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and never ever try to understand her !.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, read more
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. read more
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.
There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.
