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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Maritain, Jacques
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. France, Anatole
We conceal it from ourselves in vain–we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. Pascal, Blaise
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. De Staël, Madame
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from…Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. Lucretius
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. Bolingbroke
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Thoreau, Henry David
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. Connolly, Cyril
We must believe in luck for how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? Cocteau, Jean
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. Carter, Jimmy
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. Popper, Karl
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. Lowell, James Russell
