"Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!"

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Source : Benjamin Constant (2006). “Adolphe”, p.64, Penguin UK

Benjamin Constant

#Believe Quotes #Men Quotes #Forever Quotes

“The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.”
“Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.”

Source : "Bartiromo: Yelp's Max Levchin sees mobile as path to growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. August 19, 2012.
“Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.”
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”

Source : Aphra Behn (1696). “The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]”, p.30
“The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.”
“All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.”
“The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.”
“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.”

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