“A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Life Is Worth Living
“Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Came that which ruins nations.”
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Book I, line 165 (tr. Edward Ridley).
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