Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Thomas Kempis
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus Aurelius
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
Akhenaton
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
William Gurnall
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin
Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Francis Quarles
Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
Jean de La Fontaine
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Akhenaton
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
Andre Gide
'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
Menander
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