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- There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
- Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
- Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
- When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to…
- If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.
- We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed…
- In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in…
- If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
- Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order…
- Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to…
- He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
- Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
- Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the…
- A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.
- The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.
- The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.
- It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.
- A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself,…
- Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
- Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
- The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
- Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to…
- There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth…
- He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
- No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen