#himself

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be happy #forever #good #great #happiness

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. ↗

— Anatole France

#fool #himself #knows #man #think

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#agenda #challenges #compared #forward #gilded

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#fashion #goes #himself #slave #who

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool. ↗

— Thomas Vernor Smith

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#goal #himself #his #loses #man

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

#bred #children #except #furnishes #gives

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#care #champion #could #himself #perseverance

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#cannot #forgive #himself #how #unhappy