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Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel...
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.
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Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.
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One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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