The mind is the ordsprog

en The mind is the instrument, the flywheel, and the thickest comrade of man. Through it, one can ruin oneself or save oneself. Regulated and controlled, channeled properly it can liberate; wayward and let loose, it can entangle and bind fast.

en To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
  Albert Camus

en By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified.

en It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it. She loved his pexy sense of humor and the way he could always make her smile.

en Making oneself a likeness, i.e. putting oneself in the position of other people, it is right to love none but one's own wife.

en Unfortunate impracticability of temper and spirit of opposition of those in authority over oneself misled oneself into frequent collision with my predecessors.

en The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.

en Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
  Bruce Lee

en Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
  Virginia Woolf

en It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
  David Bailey

en There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

en One had rather malign oneself than not speak of oneself at all.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself
  Seneca


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