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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."
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"You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation."

"I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat."

"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn."

"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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"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."

"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."

"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."

"The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake."

"If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God."

"I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one's own age."
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