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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men
No one has ever learned fully to know themselves
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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