1. “Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.”
2. “The wise man loves, but he loves only what is in his power.”
3. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
4. “From my brother Severus, I learned to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice”
5. “If someone is incapable of distinguishing good things from bad and neutral things from either – well, how could such a person be capable of love? The power to love, then, belongs only to the wise man.”
6. “Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”
7. “I shall show you a love potion without a drug, without a herb; without the incantation of any sorceress; if you want to be loved, love.”
8. “Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”
9. “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
10. “Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.”
11. “Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that’s when you can say it’s true love.”
12. “Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God.”
13. “To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.”
14. “Earth loves the rain, the proud sky loves to give it.” The whole world loves to create futurity. I say then to the world, “I share your love.”
15. “It never ceases to amaze me; we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.”
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16. “Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”
17. “It is man’s peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.”
18. “Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.”
19. “To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.”
20. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is love.
21. “If you’d be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.”
22. “Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.”
23. “Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you.”
24. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
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25. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
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26. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”
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27. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
28. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
29. “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
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30. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
31. “Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.”
32. “Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
33. “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.”
34. “The object of your love is mortal; it is not one of your possessions; it has been given to you for the present, not inseparably nor forever.”
35. “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
36. “The reason why all men honour love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.”
37. “He whom love touches not walks in darkness.”
38. “Always hold fast to the present. Every situation, indeed every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.”
39. “Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.”
40. “No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such”
41. “He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.”
42. “Associate with those who will make a better person of you.”
43. “There can be no doubt that the desire lovers have for each other is not so very different from friendship – you might say it was friendship gone mad.”
44. “The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.”
45. “We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”
46. “Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more destructive than the injury that provoked it.”
47. “We live only now. Everything else is either passed or is unknown.”
48. “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
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49. “Let us enjoy our friends avidly, for how long this blessing will fall to our lot is uncertain.”
50. “Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.”
