“friendship and love blind every man to their interests.”
Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
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Friedrich Nietzsche655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes
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Arsène Houssaye (1814–1896) French writer
Source: James O'Donnell Bennett (1908) When Good Fellows Get Together, p. 147
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind".
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Variant: It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List