"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes."
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"A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed."
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"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."
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"The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them."
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"Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself."
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"There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty."
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"Retain your shyness and drop your shame."
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"Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on."
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"It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes."
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"Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps."
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"By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames."
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"Empathy is the antidote to shame."
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"Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator."
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"It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed."
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"Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated."
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"Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others."
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"If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good."
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"What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh."
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"Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet."
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"If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't."
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