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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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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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"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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Personal Development
"Dignity is pride's barometer."
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Personal Development
"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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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
"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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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."
Education
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Wisdom
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
Courage
"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."
Politics
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
Relationship
"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
Wisdom
"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
Friendship
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
Business
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
Politics
"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
Democracy
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