Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Thomas Kempis

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus Aurelius

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
Akhenaton

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
William Gurnall

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
Ieyasu Tokugawa

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Francis Quarles

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
Jean de La Fontaine

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Akhenaton

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
Menander