"It is not love that should be..." - Quote by Voltaire
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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“This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.”
“The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.”
“Will is wish, and liberty is power.”
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“Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with”
“How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.”
“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”