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1. There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you

Niccolo Machiavelli
2. He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you

Friedrich Nitzche
3. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato
4.A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves
As well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and
The reason why they are not so punish’d and cured
Is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers
Are in love too

As You Like it- William Shakespeare
6. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.

Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
7. Common sense can dictate a perfectly reasonable response to a situation while the love and passion duo will more often than not out muscle the most macho of men. Love and passion can destabilize an entire economy lest we forget the lesson learned from Helen of Troy.
8. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes
9. I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Sylvia Plath
I was infatuated with you: I am still.
No one has ever heightened such a capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.
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