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Quote by Max Nordau
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone salu

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. – Max Nordau

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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles… respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law… or, in a word justice. – Max Nordau

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. – Frederick Douglass

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Flatter yourself critically. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007

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In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. – Robert Byrne

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. – Cyril Connolly

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