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Benjamin Franklin:He that falls in love with


He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
by Benjamin Franklin


Horace:Who then is free? The wise man who can


Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
by Horace


Samuel Johnson:A man of genius has been seldom


A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
by Samuel Johnson


William Shakespeare:There is not one wise man in


There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
by William Shakespeare


Leo Tolstoy:Everyone thinks of changing the


Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
by Leo Tolstoy


Leo Tolstoy:Everyone thinks of changing the


Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
by Leo Tolstoy


Václav Havel:Anyone who takes himself too


Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
by Václav Havel


Alexandre (père) Dumas:A person who doubts


A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
by Alexandre (père) Dumas


Henry Ward Beecher:A noble man compares and


A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
by Henry Ward Beecher


George Bernard Shaw:The reasonable man adapts


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
by George Bernard Shaw


Johann Von Goethe:For a man to achieve all that


For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
by Johann Von Goethe


Immanuel Kant:If man makes himself a worm he


If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
by Immanuel Kant


William Mizner:The gent who wakes up and finds


The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
by William Mizner


Michel De Montaigne:Hath God obliged himself not


Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
by Michel De Montaigne


William Shakespeare:The fool doth think he is


The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
by William Shakespeare


William Shakespeare:With devotion's visage and


With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
by William Shakespeare


William Shakespeare:The man that hath no music


The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
by William Shakespeare


Publilius Syrus:The happy man is not he who


The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
by Publilius Syrus


Terence:I bid him look into the lives of men as


I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example of himself.
by Terence


Lao-Tzu:The sage does not hoard. The more he


The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
by Lao-Tzu


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