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- Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Regimen
- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
- Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
- Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
- Mencius (371 BC - 289 BC), Works
- He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
- Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC), The Great Supreme
- No man is wise enough by himself.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Miles Gloriosus
- Practice yourself what you preach.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Asinaria
- I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Adelphoe
- A friend is, as it were, a second self.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia
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