"Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself."
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"It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being."
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"Compassion directed to oneself is humility."
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"Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing."
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"In the end one only experiences oneself."
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"It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth."
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"He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself."
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"For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit."
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"Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself."
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"One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes"
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"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."
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"There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible."
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"The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself."
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"To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-"
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"To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision."
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"In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy."
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"one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow."
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"For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost."
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"To be understood is to prostitute oneself"
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"To know anything about oneself one must know all about others."
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