See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor. Giordano Bruno
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  2. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all? - Cassandra Clare

  3. I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.
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  4. And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve. - Molly Ringle

  5. The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. - Bette Midler

More Quotes By Giordano Bruno
  1. It is immoral to hold an opinion in order to curry another's favor; mercenary, servile, and against the dignity of human liberty to yield and submit; supremely stupid to believe as a matter of habit; irrational to decide according to the majority opinion, as if...

  2. They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

  3. Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

  4. Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

  5. If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

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