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When a father praises his son, he flatters himself.
He that feeds himself from waiting could die of hunger.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.
He who tickles himself may laugh when he pleases.
No one is either rich or poor who has not helped himself to be so.
A man without a woman cannot defend himself against seductions.
He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.
He who slaps himself on the face should not cry ouch.
He who tickles himself can laugh whenever he wants.
The wolf will hire himself out very cheaply as a shepherd.
Who falls in the water will hold on to the foam to save himself.
The glory of ancestors should not prevent a man winning glory for himself.
He avenged himself on fleas, and burned up his bed.
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.