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• Once you accept your own death all of a sudden you are free to live.
  You no longer care about your reputation, you no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in....
• At least 75 times in your life, someone will tell you that something is "for your own good.
  It will never be for your own good....
• Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors.
• If you share your friend's crime you make it your own. Roman Proverb
• If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. -- John Atkinso
• Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors. Swedish Proverb
• Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. English Proverb