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"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."
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"I am talking about misery and all of its implications."
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"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
"Appreciation is a better motivator than pain."
"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."
"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."
"No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied. If today I run at a speed of 100, I keep an aim of running at 200. World has gone far ahead and we need to match that level."
"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
"I believe the real reason we pursue anything in life is not for the thing itself, but for who we become on the way to its accomplishment. We strive to accomplish things in the attempt to mold ourselves. The greatest benefits Jiu Jitsu will have in your life will have nothing to do with Jiu Jitsu. It is this simple understanding that allows me to persist in my study. Even on the rare days when I may not have a burning desire to practice Jiu Jitsu, I am reminded that my practicing Jiu Jitsu is more accurately my practicing to become a better human being. The lessons I learn on the mat will serve me in every area of life-- personal development, relationships, business, and the like."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."
"The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake."
"If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God."
"I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one's own age."
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