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"Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to."
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"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."

"I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity."

"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."

"If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity."

"You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance."
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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."

"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."

"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."

"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."

"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
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