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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. - Alexander The Grea

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. – Alexander The Great

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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem. – Nathaniel Branden

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The soul that is within me no man can degrade. – Frederick Douglass

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To have that sense of ones intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. – Joan Didion

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