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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

Love, True, Woman

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

Wise, Fool, Knows

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Sacrifice, Perfect

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Wise, Fool, Flatters

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis

Peace, Happiness, God

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

Strength, True, Person

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

Truth, Knowledge, Judge

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Everyone, Thinks, Changing

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein

Nature, Science, Insecurity

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Mind, Humble

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

Truth, Person, Him

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller

Cannot, Others, Forgive

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

Work, Him, Down

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Young, Rise

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain

Life, Real, Person

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain

Respect, Heart, Private

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Written, Clothes

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

Person, Cannot, Able

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

Trust, Public, Consider

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill

Time, Truth, Continue

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill

Power, Except, Grown

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Business, True

Man is a universe within himself.
Bob Marley

Universe, Within

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur

Strong, Humble, Enough

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

Government, Feels, Strongest

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

Music, Sweet, Nor

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

Change, May, Liberty

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