Famous quotes containing the word oneself:
“It was modesty that invented the word “philosopher” in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit—the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.”
—André Breton (1896–1966)
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