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• People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  People, Wife, Habit

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

  Laurence Sterne

  Thinking, Freethinker

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.146

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• Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Body, Faces, Sin

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• There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

  Josh Billings

  Mother, Children, Taught

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 349, 1895.

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• Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheating, Horse, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Married, but not to each other.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Married, Adultery

  Song: Married But Not to Each Other

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• So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

  Leonard Cohen

  Stars, Moon, Want

  Song: Death Of A Ladies' Man, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

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• Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspire, World, Enthusiasm

  "Ranke's History of the Popes" by Thomas B. Macaulay, "Edinburgh Review", October, 1840.

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• A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

  Arthur Helps

  Believe, Men, One Day

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care.

  Kristin Hannah

  Taken, Years, Track

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• People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.

  Bertrand Russell

  Eye, Men, People

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.546, Psychology Press

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heartbreak, Truth, Lying

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

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• No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Believe, Book, Writing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

  Erica Jong

  Unseen, Triangles, Rivals

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Sep 28, 2012

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• A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Hype, Needs

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1024, Wordsworth Editions

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• I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Girl

  Song: Shot for Me, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.153, Verso

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• Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Heart, Thinking, Soul

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• Modern infidelity is different than traditional infidelity and sits on top of the romantic ideal that you find "the one" and that if you have everything that you need at home, you have no reason to go looking elsewhere. And if you have an affair, it's a symptom of a flawed relationship. If you don't apply the deficiency model to the relationship, then you apply it to the person. The person who strays is selfish, immature, addicted suffers from insecure attachment. And the person who doesn't stray is the committed partner: mature, stable, and non-selfish.

  Esther Perel

  Selfish, Home, Insecure

  "The Deeper Reasons Why People Have Affairs". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. October 20, 2017.

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• To look at infidelity from the point of view of sex is a complete narrowing of the phenomenon. There's a reason that the commandment is repeated twice in the Bible - once for doing it and once for thinking about it. We have always created structures and broken structures. It is essential to the human spirit.

  Esther Perel

  Thinking, Broken, Spirit

  Source: wbur.org

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• Infidelity is not freedom. It's a momentary respite from stressors that are going to come back.

  Jenny Slate

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

  Herbert Spencer

  Fear

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• God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.

  Pope Francis

  Stronger, God's Faithfulness, Unfaithfulness

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