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The Renaissance3 quotes
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare · 1616The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others. — Francis Bacon · 1625Colonial America1 quote
What you would seem to be, be really. — Benjamin Franklin · 1744