I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

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The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

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Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

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