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"A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty."
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"Don't spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth."
"I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down."
"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."
"I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"
"98% of the things said by a drunk man are true, 98% of those said by a horny man aren't."
"People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead."
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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."
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
"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."
"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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