"Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing."

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"If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely."

Willard Gaylin, American Scientist

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"Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared quietly and mechanically for every evening's engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing, till the last moment, where it was to take her."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Behavior, Reflection, Family, Emotion

"Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"Politeness is organized indifference."

Paul Valery, French Poet

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"You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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"In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will."

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"A promise must never be broken."

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"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."

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"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased."

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"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."

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"If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies."

"To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely."

"Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."

"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."

"Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually."

"Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing."

"Politeness is organized indifference."

"You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you."

"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."

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"I think the first duty of society is justice."

"In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will."

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government."

"A promise must never be broken."

"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased."

"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."