Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
William Shakespeare
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Benjamin Franklin
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus
As a physician (the philosophy) is not to treat thyself but go seek help from another physician if you are sick.
Celestino Vega
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne, Sr.
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.
John Mitchell Mason
Keep thy religion to thyself.
George Carlin
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
Thomas a Kempis
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn
Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.
Walter Raleigh, Sr.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Joseph Addison
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
Jean de La Fontaine
Know thyself. Really think this through before you make a commitment to a lifestyle and work style you just may not be suited for.
Laurie Rozakis
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Jackie Mason
...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Saint Augustine
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Let us start a new religion with one commandment, 'Enjoy thyself.
Israel Zangwill
[One of the most important decision you'll have to make before fully committing to running a freelance business is to determine if this type of lifestyle matches your personality.] Know thyself, ... Really think this through before you make a commitment to a lifestyle and work style you just may not be suited for.
Laurie Rozakis
'Know thyself,' said the old philosopher, 'improve thyself,' saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.
Edward G. Bulwer lytton
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
Sir Thomas Browne
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Marcus Aurelius
There is a higher law: to love thy neighbor as thyself. And thy neighbor may not have a green card.
Richard Goodman
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
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