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Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.
When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.
Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.
One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?
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.
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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.
Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.
Know thyself. Remain steadfast. Follow your dreams. These are great directives and perfectly fitting for graduates. But reality is that achieving dreams takes a solid education - education that remains elusive for too many Americans.
It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It's not rocket science.
Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
