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"One should use praise to recognize what one is not."
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"Usually we praise only to be praised."
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"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."
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"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."
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"Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent."
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"I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me."
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"Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised."
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"Testing time is the time for an increase in praise."
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"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."
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"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."
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"We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled."
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"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
Life

"He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it."
Death

"People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation."
Love

"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
Man

"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."
Thought

"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf."
Success

"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."
Death

"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
Creativity

"Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim."
War

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