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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

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Become who you are!”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
Niccolo Machiavelli

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To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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To be, or not to be, that is the question.

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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”
Simone Weil

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Become such as you are, having learned what that is.”
Pindar - Pythian Odes

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Tell yourself, first of all, what kind of man you want to be; and then go ahead with what you are doing.”
Epictetus

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Only he who loves something is something; to be nothing and to love nothing are identical.”
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
Epicurus

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I think, therefore I am.”
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method

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Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.”
Fernando Pessoa

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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.”
Meister Eckhart

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Sometimes I think. Sometimes I am.”
Paul Valéry - Tel quel

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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
Karl Marx

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Man is the shepherd of Being.”
Martin Heidegger

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Language is the house of the truth of Being.”
Martin Heidegger

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Everything that was is no longer; everything that will be is not yet. Look no further for the secret of our ills.”
Alfred de Musset

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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
Albert Camus - The Rebel

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We do not do what we want and nonetheless we are responsible for what we are.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

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For if I am deceived, I am.”
Augustine of Hippo - The City of God

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I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.”
Henry David Thoreau

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I am not what I once was.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

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To be is to be perceived or to perceive.”
George Berkeley

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel

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