"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

Being, End, Rights

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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."

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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

Lee Van Cleef, American Actor

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."

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"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

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"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

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"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

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"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

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"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."

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"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

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"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

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