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- Even pleasure itself is a toil.
- Manilius (~1 BC)
- The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
- Harold Laki
- Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- US Declaration of Independence
- If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
- The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
- Sir John Holt
- The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Respect yourself and others will respect you.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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