#himself

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#falsehood #himself #man #narrow #near

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#bad #could #course #down #dream

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

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