#oneself

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. ↗

— Gamaliel Bailey

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#equivalent #evils #existence #god #harmony

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#die #ending #full #identification #left

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

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To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#hope #lie #live #oneself #signifies

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#given #her #hero #his #life

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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