A person should always speak in a respectable manner.

Talmud, Yalkut Shimoni, remez 55

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Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

Miyamoto Musashi

Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How to be unhappy: stay inside all day, move as little as possible, spend more than you earn, take yourself (and life) too seriously, look for reasons why things won't work, always consume, never contribute, resent the lucky and successful, never say hello first, be unreliable.

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