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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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