The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
Love of country is like love of woman – he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
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