The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
Voltaire
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Lat., "Now I know what love is. VIRGIL To be able to say how much love, is love but little. AGNES REPPLIER People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they... GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneat... JOHN HARRIGAN The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. MARCUS T. CICERO I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. MOTHER THERESA If you judge people, you have no time to love them. MOTHER THERESA Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. JOHN WESLEY We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. MARY ROBERTS RHINEHART People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. LOUISE HAY Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. FRENCH PROVERB There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, b... LYNDA BARRY Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. BECA LEWIS It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean a... ENID BAGNOLD To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. D. H. LAWRENCE I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out. WAYNE BIRMINGHAM Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent. W. A. CLARKE Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!. BESSIE DELANEY Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed. DAVID H.K. LEUNG Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of... ANALECTS You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the mom... HENRY DRUMMOND Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love yo... GANDHI For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasu... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out it. UNKNOWN For he who loves must live. UNKNOWN Seek and you will find. BIBLE Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesi... BIBLE Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ZORA NEALE HURSTON The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather... VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. VICTOR HUGO
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