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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xun Kuang
Man
Animal
Affection
Believe
Petty
Think
Others
Enthusiastically
He
Like
Well
Make
Him
Himself
Deception
Wants
Boast
Should
Eager
Desires
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu
Enemy
Opportunity
Own
Defeat
Our
Ourselves
Secure
Lies
Himself
Provided
Hands
Against
Defeating
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
Truth
Knowledge
Judge
Brainy
Laughter
Himself
Up
Gods
Whoever
Set
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
George Herbert
Forgiveness
Others
Everyone
Must
Would
He
Over
Reach
Himself
Pass
Forgive
Forgiven
Heaven
Cannot
Which
Breaks
Bridge
Ever
Need
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Lao Tzu
Man
Enemies
Like
Himself
Demons
Human
Human Beings
Beings
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Self-Respect
Man
Respect
Eyes
Human Being
Matters
Own
Think
Say
He
Sin
Him
Undermine
Himself
His
Human
Being
Anything
Right
Thinks
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
Eliphas Levi
Teacher
Good
Good Teacher
Learning
Those
Must
Find
Able
Put
Himself
Place
Hard
Who
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man
Face
Considerable
Finally
Wear
True
Bewildered
Period
Himself
Another
Without
Any
Getting
May
Which
Multitude
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
People
Say
Finds
Something
Self
Himself
Person
Often
Creates
Found
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson
Good
Wise
Man
Fool
Sometimes
Master
Own
Other
Easily
Give
Only
Counsel
Foolish
He
Takes
Himself
Another
His
Err
Than
May
Taught
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aurelius
Man
Value
Rest
Men
Own
Every
Sets
Others
More
Himself
Opinions
How
His
Wondered
Than
Often
Loves
Less
Every Man
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
Man
Peace
Compassion
Circle
Will
Living
Find
He
Until
Himself
His
Include
Things
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
Man
Fight
Better
Safety
Made
Men
Free
Miserable
Important
Own
Nothing
Unless
Willing
No Chance
More
He
Himself
His
Than
Personal
Being
Which
Who
Creature
Chance
Kept
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
Forgiveness
Man
Every
Others
Must
He
Over
Himself
Pass
Forgive
Forgiven
Cannot
Which
Breaks
Bridge
Every Man
Need
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh
Great
Fire
Our
See
Only
No-One
Himself
Smoke
Passers-By
Hearts
May
Warm
Ever
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Andrew Carnegie
You
Brainy
Ladder
Unless
Willing
Push
He
Himself
Climb
Up
Any
Cannot
Little
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.
Marcus Aurelius
Man
Ambition
Other
Way
Higher
Noble
Idea
Himself
Vulgar
Than
Estimates
Which
Mean
Lower
Produces
Aspiration
Compares
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. Nixon
Good
Angry
You
Anger
Losing
Teammates
Satisfied
Mark
Good Loser
Out
Must
About
Never
He
Takes
Himself
Terribly
Opponents
Loser
His
Get
Victorious
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Wrapped
Small
Himself
Makes
Up
Very
Bundle
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man
Fool
Once
Month
Cleverest
Himself
Calls
Opinion
Least
In My Opinion
Who
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
William Hazlitt
Respect
Hypocrite
Too
Despises
Those
Would
No Respect
Could
He
Make
Himself
Dupe
Deceives
Whom
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Broken
Man
World
Unity
Lies
Himself
Because
Lacks
Reason
Why
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud
Eyes
Every
Secret
Ears
Out
Silent
See
Betrayal
Fingertips
He
Mortal
Him
Himself
Hear
His
Lips
May
Convince
Keep
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm
Life
Man
Personality
Important
Become
Own
Birth
Give
Potentially
Main
He
Most
Himself
His
Effort
Task
The Most Important
Product
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
Hippocrates
Knowledge
Physician
Astrology
Call
Himself
Without
Right
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen
Inspirational
Truth
Man
Guidance
People
Will
Master
Own
Others
Wills
Seek
He
Him
Himself
Learn
Command
His
Cannot
Mold
Who
Coerce
Serve
Things
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