He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin

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

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
Charles Stanley

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

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

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates