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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not i

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. – Florence Nightingale

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads havent been cut off. – E. M. Cioran

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

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