Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Louise L. Hay

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Eric Hoffer

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Eric Hoffer

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
Eric Hoffer

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
John Maynard Keynes

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope