No one is wise enough to advice himself.
A man laughs at others and weeps for himself.
No one buys what he recommends himself.
Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.
He helps little that helps not himself.
He who hates, hates himself.
He who knows himself best esteems himself least.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
A clever doctor never treats himself.
He who spits in the air pollutes himself.
Who steals for others is hanged for himself.
A lawyer never goes to law himself.
He that falls by himself never cries.
Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one will not allow himself to wrong others, he will wrong himself. If he doesn't come across anyone to lie to, he will lie to himself in his own thoughts.
[The Buddha] is not dividing himself into worthy and unworthy pieces; he is one being, indivisible, immune from the tendency to double back and beat up on himself. He has seen the worst in himself and not been taken down.
His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane. He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this tor...
Whoever lives within himself is burning with love.
He who knows himself knows everybody.
The father in praising his son extols himself.
