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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” 

Oscar Wilde

“Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

St. Augustine.

“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”

Hindustani Proverb.