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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.

Henrik Ibsen

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself

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