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There is no other life; why don’t you give your whole heart to this one?

Ugo Foscolo

You will taste how salty another's bread is, and how hard it is to tread another's stairs up and down.

Dante Alighieri

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Bob Marley

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

William Shakespeare

I know that I know nothing.

Socrates

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Praemonitus, praemunitus.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Dalberg-Acton

"Everyone fears me."

Luis XIV