Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Love Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Quotes , Art Quotes

And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away!

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All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

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I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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Your voice and music are the same to me.

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So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Love Quotes , Hate Quotes

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

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Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend.

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People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

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By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

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