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The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.

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Character is what can do without success

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out...more

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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Character is that which can do without success.

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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitud...more

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Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

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This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me; looking from ...more

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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or t...more

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.