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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin

Rich, Poor, Between

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
Pablo Picasso

Difficult, Loved, Hated

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell

Art, Others, Ethics

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

Humor, Sense, Joke

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Thinking, Effort

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jackie Kennedy

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud

Dreams, Evil, Dream

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard

She, Quarrel, Admit

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.
Paul Ryan

Greatest, Person, Giving

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mean, Keep, Safe

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

Faith, Best, Safest

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
R. D. Laing

Society, Matter, Moral

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver

Human, Less, Hating

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung

Human, Sometimes, Between

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Pope Benedict XVI

Faith, Attitude, Today

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Others, Deceived, Consider

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Desire, Treated, Polite

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal

Life, Truth, Nothing

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Edward Hoagland

Him, Enjoy, Try

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Sense, Discipline, Ability

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas

Patience, Someone, Done

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich

Courage, Accept, Spite

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Fun, Yourself

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

Good, Thinking, Before

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James A. Baldwin

Face, Mystery, Unknown

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing

True, Felt, Guilt

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler

Advantage, Places, Thick

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing, Difficult, Deceiving

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James A. Baldwin

Experience, Others, Become

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