Bastiano Romano (The Five Syndicates, #3)

by Parker S. Huntington

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with. —Fannie Flagg

Don’t do something because you think you have to. Do it because you want to.

Take risks with love. Deal with the consequences later.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. —Stephen King

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. —Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Hatred paralyzes life.” Love releases it.

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it’s an absolute duty. —Stieg Larsson

Love is a better teacher than duty. —Albert Einstein

The thing about love is, it hurts when you lose it, but it hurts more to never have it in the first place.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. —Robert Louis Stevenson

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it’s an absolute duty. —Stieg Larsson

The first duty of love is to listen. —Paul Tillich