Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Confucius

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Confucius

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Groucho Marx

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho Marx

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."
Andy Warhol

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Andy Warhol

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
W. C. Fields

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare