“With men, you say yourself, infidelity is not inconstancy.”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , book Les Liaisons dangereuses

Pour les hommes, dites-vous vous-même, l'infidélité n'est pas l'inconstance.
Letter 139: Madame la Présidente Tourvel to Madame de Rosemonde. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_139
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)

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Pour les hommes, dites-vous vous-même, l'infidélité n'est pas l'inconstance.

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French novelist, official and army general 1741–1803

Joseph Roux (1834–1905) French poet

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Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

“Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Incantation

“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying

“You men,' she says. 'You durn men.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“I say: "What you give, you give to yourself; what you do not give, you give up." And this is to say that whatever you do in the world, you do to yourself; and whatever you do not give to the world, you lose.”

Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929) Filmmaker and comics writer

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: I say: "What you give, you give to yourself; what you do not give, you give up." And this is to say that whatever you do in the world, you do to yourself; and whatever you do not give to the world, you lose. If I keep my knowledge, I lose it. (...) One receives knowledge and gives it. When you give knowledge, you enrich yourself. If you do not give love, you are detracting from yourself. If I begin to help people, if I begin to heal people, I begin to heal. Do you understand? To be a therapist, you have to be a patient. The first thing to do to heal yourself is to heal others. I have one more saying: "I do not want anything for myself that I do not want for others".

“I say you are men and not sheep. I say: Arise and be men indeed!”

R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer

Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 5, on Polyphemia
Context: Roadstrum had always believed that he had troubles enough of his own. He seldom borrowed trouble, and never on usurious terms. He knew that it was a solid thing that sheep do not gather in taverns and drink beer, not even potato beer; that they do not sing, not even badly; that they do not tell stories. But a stranger can easily make trouble for himself on a strange world by challenging local customs.
"But I am the greet Roadstrum," he said, suddenly and loudly. "I am a great one for winning justice for the lowly, and I do not scare easily. I threw the great Atlas at the wrestle, and who else can say as much? I suffer from the heroic sickness every third day about nightfall, and I am not sure whether this is the third day or not. I say you are men and not sheep. I say: Arise and be men indeed!"
"It has been tried before," said Roadstrum's friend, the sheep, "and it didn't work."
"You have tried a revolt, and it failed?"
"No, no, another man tried to incite us to revolt, and failed."