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"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."
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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."

"If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!"

"Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity."

"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."

"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."

"Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."
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