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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

Henrik Ibsen

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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
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
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround

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