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What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
Escapism
Horace

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
Freedom
Horace

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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
Respectability
Edgar Watson Howe

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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
Trust
Edgar Watson Howe

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Failure
Elbert Hubbard

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One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
Experts
Elbert Hubbard

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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Pride
Elbert Hubbard

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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Approval
Raymond Hull

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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Dean William R. Inge

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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
Society
Dean William R. Inge

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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
Welfare
Italian Proverb

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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Writers and Writing
Henry James

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Competition
Mrs. Jamieson

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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Government
Thomas Jefferson

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Politicians and Politics
Thomas Jefferson

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When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson

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Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.
Stupidity
Jewish Proverb

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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Samuel Johnson

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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Army and Navy
Samuel Johnson

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For who is pleased with himself.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson

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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Pain
Samuel Johnson

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He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.
Discipline
Jyrus

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No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
Conflict
Lord Kames

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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
Obstacles
Ryszard Kapuscinski

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God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
Security
Helen Keller

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun