Akilan
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Michel de Montaigne
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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Milan Kundera
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
tags: compassion, empathy
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Voltaire
“Injustice in the end produces independence.”
― Voltaire
tags: cause-and-effect, independence, injustice, suffering
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Milan Kundera
“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Socrates
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates
tags: independence, self-reliance
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