"If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are esteemable" — Jean de La Bruyère

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them

I love those who yearn for the impossible

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness

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