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- Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
- Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
- There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
- Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
- I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world. - Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
- If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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