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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson
    tags: beyond-good-and-evil
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
    tags: hope, longing, pain, regret, yearning
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl
    tags: inspirational, life, meaning
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: self-realization
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is God.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: courage, inspirational, strength
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: popular
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “A leader is a dealer in hope.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: leadership
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: ignorance, regret, stupidity, victory
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's Memoirs
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
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    Alexander the Great
    “When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.”
    ― Alexander the Great
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    Alexander the Great
    “Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.”
    ― Alexander the Great
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    Alexander the Great
    “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
    ― Alexander the Great
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”
    ― Julius Caesar
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”
    ― Julius Caesar
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: integrity, morality
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: death, fear, inspirational
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: choice, happiness
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: act, last, life, mindfulness
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: carpe-diem, character, death, life, mindfulness, perfection, strength-of-character
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, retire, self, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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