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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him. ↗

— Owen D. Young

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He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. ↗

— Aristotle

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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. ↗

— Maimonides

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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. ↗

— Maimonides

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In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

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