"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."

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"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."

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"Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do."

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"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

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"Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous."

"Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness."

"If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land."

"Sincerity is the way to heaven."

"Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others."

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart."

"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

"Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do."

"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not."