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- Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
- Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983)
- It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
- John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
- The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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