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“Cualquier persona que haya estado enamorada conoce la diferencia entre el eros y la lujuria. No hay comparación. La segunda es una sombra del primero, una sombra vacía y frustrante.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Rapture

tags: gabriel-emerson, spanish

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“The ordinary man places his life’s happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the like, so that when he loses them or finds them disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: life

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“To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.”
― Plutarch

tags: action, agesilaus, bad, circumstance, evil, good, honor

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“¡Los suspiros son aire y van al aire!
¡Las lágrimas son agua y van al mar!
Dime, mujer, cuando el amor se olvida
¿sabes tú adónde va?”
― Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

tags: love, poetry, spanish

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“... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...”
― Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives: Volume II

tags: civilization, habit, man-s-nature, pompey, rome

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