We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.