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“How regrettable it is to blush when you reveal yourself to others just as you are, and when you flee the oppotunity to examine yourself!”
― Frederick the Great, Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings

“Rather than working and becoming a socially responsible person, rather than listening to my wife's lectures, I wanted to be as idle as the idlest animal on earth. I wanted to cast off as much as possible the meaningless mask of humanity.
I was shy of human society. I was shy of life. Everything was strange and unfamiliar to me.”
― Yi Sang, The Wings

“For war is decided not by numbers of men nor their bodily size, but by the valor that is in the soul. Let the strongest motive that men have, then, enter your minds, namely pride in past achievement.”
― Procopius

“A life, not a creed, would be its test; what a man does, not what he professes; what he is, not what he has.”
― Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.