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"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."
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"He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe drops of that same blood which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown grey before his time in discipline and in command, who had lived with his sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade blackened by powder, his forehead wrinkled by the cap, in the barracks, in the camp, in the bivouac, in the ambulance, and who after twenty years had returned from the great wars with his cheek scarred, his face smiling, simple, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done everything for France and nothing against her."
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"You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism."
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"You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero."
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"The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words."
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"Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one."
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"I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the difficult task of changing people by being just a man."
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"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."
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"In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism."
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"Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame."
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"One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab."
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"Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones."
People
"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."
Heroism
"Lovers should also have their days off."
Relationship
"With renunciation life begins."
Life
"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"
Man
"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual."
Trouble
"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."
Time
"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."
Love
"How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue."
Life
"To be one's own master is to be the slave of self."
Self
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