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• Jana's Second Law of Love: Better a pebble given out of love than a diamond given out of duty.
• It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
  -- Honore de Balzac...
• It requires more energy to remove an object from it's proper place than to put it back.
  -- MacPherson's Law of Entropy...
• Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• The wise learn more from the fools than the fools learn from the wise.
• Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love. -- Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucald
• More probable states are more likely to be observed than less probable states, unless specific constraints exist to keep them from occurring.
  -- The Generalized Thermodynamic Law (Systems Theory)...
• Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty
  A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity....
• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compac
  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madma...