Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
He's not anybody's clone. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. As long as he continues to remind himself of that, he's going to be a very good player.
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.