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"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character."
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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."
"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
"You become a hypocrite when you can't freely be at peace with others, but you can carry green palm leaves to church to commemorate "palm Sunday"! Throw those palm leaves somewhere; and lay your life down for someone to walk on and get to the destined land!"
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"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."
"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."
"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."
"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."
"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated."
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