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There is no other life; why don’t you give your whole heart to this one?

Ugo Foscolo

You will taste how salty another's bread is, and how hard it is to tread another's stairs up and down.

Dante Alighieri

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

I know that I know nothing.

Socrates

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

La ponctuality is the politeness of kings.

Louis XVIII

Praemonitus, praemunitus.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Dalberg-Acton

So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.

Saint Paul