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• He who hates himself is not humble. -- E.M. Ciora
• Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
  He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa....
• He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
• But if a man happens to find himself ... he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
• Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope.
  And that is always the saddest predicament which anyone can get into. -- J. Ogden Armou...
• Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!
  -- Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) -- To the Countess of Cumberland, Stanza 12...
• He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser: -- Nietzsche
• The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. -- Boileau
• You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. -- Andrew Carnegie