“321.—We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
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“I always believed it was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are. Your city, your neighborhood, your family. People here take pride in these things, like it was something they'd accomplished. The bodies around their souls, the cities wrapped around those.”
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“324.—There is more self-love than love in jealousy.”
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“78.—The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.”
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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