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- Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
- Czech Proverb
- The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
- Francis Maitland Balfour
- Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Twelfth Night'
- Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), in his White House farewell
- Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
- Welsh Proverb
- 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)
- Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- 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
- 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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