Alive Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.…

— Henry David Thoreau

He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness,…

— Han Fei

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

— Thomas a Kempis

“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself and give…

— Karen Horney

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his…

— Anonymous

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

— Hadewijch

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his…

— William Shakespeare

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against…

— Plutarch

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers…

— Samuel Johnson

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map…

— Vaclav Havel