Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.Alexis Carrel
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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