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Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. ↗

— George Chapman

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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. ↗

— Pierre Charron

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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

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No one is free who does not lord over himself. ↗

— Claudius

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

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