Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
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Carroll Bryant
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
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Confucius
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
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Sarah Addison Allen
That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.
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Anonymous
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
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Euripides
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