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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon


Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1



Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), in his White House farewell



Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics



The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects


Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey


When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb


Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand (1804 - 1876)


I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982


There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)