#self

He knows enough to recognize the faults of others, but he doesn’t know his own faults. What can I do with a man like this? …

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Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no

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For some reason men have imagined that love for oneself is more natural and comprehensible than love for another. Why? Love

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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

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Perhaps you regard this thinking about myself as a waste of time – but how can I be a logician before I’m a human being! Far

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To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths,

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Just as the trunk of a banana tree is nothing when split into pieces, in the same way too, the ‘I’ is not a real entity

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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you

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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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