#self

When we seek to rule only ourselves, we are each of us kings.

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When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.

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Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

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To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and

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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

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As you are shifting, you will begin to realize that you are not the same person you used to be. The things you used to

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Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom

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What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a

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Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start

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I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellow men.

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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is

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To act absolutely in obedience to virtue is in us the same thing as to act, to live, or to preserve one’s being in

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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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To be a philosopher, that is to say, a lover of wisdom (for wisdom is nothing but truth), it is not enough for a man to

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Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this

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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be

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I’m on a journey of self discovery.

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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

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