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"Dignity is pride's barometer."
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Personal Development
"Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request."
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Personal Development
"Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise."
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"He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become."
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"Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them."
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"The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves."
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"I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette."
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"The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort."
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"If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels."
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"All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder-either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity."
Emotion
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
Wisdom
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Friendship
"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
Virtue
"That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal."
Progress
"Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act."
Choice
"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
Fiction
"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."
Wisdom
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."
Wisdom
"The physician heals Nature makes well."
Healing
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