#thyself

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. ↗

— Confucius

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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. ↗

— Democritus

#doing #injustice #suffer #thou #thyself

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#i #knew #know #know thyself #myself

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. ↗

— Edward Young

#revere #thyself #yet

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. ↗

— Andre Gide

#become #butterfly #caterpillar #development #himself

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee. ↗

— William Gurnall

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. ↗

— Akhenaton

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. ↗

— Akhenaton

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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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