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Fernando Pessoa
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
The Book of Disquiet
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Leonardo da Vinci
Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not
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S�bastien-Roch Chamfort
One must not hope to be more than one can be
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Immanuel Kant
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness
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Epictetus
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse
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Sigmund Freud
The ego is not master in its own house
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Sigmund Freud
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world
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Abraham Lincoln
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was
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Lev Tolstoy
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible
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Henry Thoreau
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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