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"One should use praise to recognize what one is not."
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"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."

"Take those praises with a level head, you must not be distracted by them. After all, purpose still awaits you."

"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."

"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
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"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."

"Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long."

"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."

"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."

"There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth."

"There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight."
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