#elf

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#courses #feeling #great #honorable #hope

A friend is, as it were, a second self. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#friend #second #self #were

No one can give you better advice than yourself. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#better #give #than #you #yourself

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#believed #better #ever #existed #himself

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anything #financed #had #i #impossible

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#either #fanatic #get #himself #idea

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#ever #i #i can #limitations #more

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#excuse #find #i #marble #me

No one is free who does not lord over himself. ↗

— Claudius

#free #himself #lord #over #who

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#himself #i #interesting #know #life