“To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.”
Teatro Quase Completo - Page 440, by Nelson Rodrigues - Published by Tempo Brasileiro, 1965
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Variant: Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)

“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
Variant: And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
Source: The Winter Ghosts

“He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.”
The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton, (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), First Institute.
Institutes of the Laws of England

“I love who dares... I hate those who use.”
Original: Amo chi osa... odio chi usa.
Source: prevale.net