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A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.


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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.



I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.



Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.



Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.



Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.



Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.



A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.



Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?



Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.



If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.





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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.



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He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.



I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.

I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.



Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.



I'm a mom first, a singer second.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.



I'm so blessed to have been a working actor. If they still would like to make me a superstar, I'm available, but so far, being a working actor has been great. It's taken me everywhere.

I'm so blessed to have been a working actor. If they still would like to make me a superstar, I'm available, but so far, being a working actor has been great. It's taken me everywhere.



Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.



The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.



In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.




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