#himself

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. ↗

— George Chapman

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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#cog #corruption #else #gives #governs

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. ↗

— Pierre Charron

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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aim #another #endure #everybody #fear

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#between #comes #himself #implacable #man

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#exalted #exalts #himself #humbled #humbles

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#greatest #greatest service #grow #himself #how

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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

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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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