#thyself

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

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

— Akhenaton

#friend #indulge #murder #own #passion

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

#act #action #change #establish #ever

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

— Thomas Browne

#advantage #alone #lose #society #solitude

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#help #thee #thyself #will

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#had #often #thee #thyself #who

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#conquest #easily #first #get #govern

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' ↗

— George McGovern

#empathy #injunction #love #neighbor #old

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. ↗

— Pythagoras

#all things #cloud #light #reverence #shadow