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• We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
  -- Victor Hugo...
• From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved.
  One might perhaps answer that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....
• We prefer to speak evil of ourselves rather than not speak of ourselves at all.
• The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. -- Sophocle
• May you always be loved.
• The less we love a women, the more we are loved by her.
• We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one. -- John Fishe