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"It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's."

"I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn't need policing; they needed help, and we could give it to them. But I would rather not mention that now, or here. It's one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation's incompetence."

"My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp."

"What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people?"

"Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self - esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems."

"Life is easier lived when lived for others."

"Serving others is one of the bases for you to have or to enjoy a fullness of purpose in life."

"A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it."
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"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns."

"We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that."

"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
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