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

to be

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
Katherine Mansfield

laughter
oneself

The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people."
Vincent Willem van Gogh

art
love

The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
Nelson Mandela

courage
fear

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
William Morris

The effort we make to be happy is never lost."
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur

happiness

Silence is often the truest wisdom."
Pindar

silence
wisdom

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

change
oneself

It is never too late to give up our prejudices."
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

prejudice

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

wind

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide."
Paul Valéry

to hide

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

others

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

enemy
tolerance

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill

enthusiasm
success

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov

life
science
society
to know
wisdom

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing."
Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel

wings

Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

happiness
others

I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

mistake
to die

There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them."
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

thing
to hide

Important matters may manifest themselves through small signs."
Sigmund Freud - Introduction to Psychoanalysis

We admire the world through what we love."
Alphonse de Lamartine

love
world

There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not."
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

love
to hide

If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others."
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

others

Love truth, but pardon error."
Voltaire

forgiveness
mistake
truth

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I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me."
Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos

Human nature

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