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- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
- Quintilian
- Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
- Quintilian
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
- Thomas Elliot
- No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
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