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Themes

  • Friendship — Celebrating the bonds of loyalty, trust, and companionship

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“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
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Love Is True Love Ghosts

“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”
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Jealousy Self-Love Than

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
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Long Hide Where

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
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Kind Only Thousand

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”
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Weakness Resist Than

“We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.”
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Enough Others Endure
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