Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom."
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Thyself
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Socrates
Philosopher
"Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom."
Felix Adler
Philosopher, Social Reformer
"Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself."
Socrates
Philosopher
"To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom."
Thomas Fuller
Physician
"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too."
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"Renew thyself completely each day."
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"Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!"
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"In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself."
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"Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself."
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"Praise thyself never."
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"Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st."
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"Do not plunge thyself too far in anger."
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"Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]"
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"In solitude, be a multitude to thyself."
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"Do thine own work, and know thyself."
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"What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others."
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"Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee."
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"Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise"
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"Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself."
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"Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself."
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"When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor."
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"Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor."
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"All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself."
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"Pardon all but thy selfe. [Pardon all but thyself.]"
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