"A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person."

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Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#Third Person Quotes #Thirds Quotes #Platonic Quotes

“When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.”
“One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.”
“Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.22, Harvard University Press
“I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.”
“Whatâ€™s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.”
“Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.”
“When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.”
“The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.”

Source : "Salazar: biographical study" by Franco Nogueira, Atlantis Publishing, (p. 383), 1977.

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