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• The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
  -- Sophocle...
• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
  -- Victor Hugo...
• If we had no defects ourselves, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
• We apply ourselves to perfection of That.
• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows up to othe
  but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it....
• In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Oedipus Coloneus, 880
• Self-centered people are those who spend so much time talking about themselves we never get a chance to talk about ourselves.
• How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
  Still to ourselves in every place ensigned Our own felicity we make or find. -- Samuel Johnso...