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“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Our life is made by the death of others.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“There are no gains without pains.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.” Confucius, Analects

“he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” Aristotle, Politics

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