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Self Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have…
- A friend is, as it were, a second self.
- The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
- The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
- The spirit is the true self.
- Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.
- If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
- Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself;…
- A true friend is a sort of second self.
- To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster