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  1. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

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  2. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

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  3. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability

  4. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability

  5. A quotation from Euripides

    MEDEA:                     Let no one think of me
    As humble or weak or passive; let them understand
    I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies,
    Loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
     
    [ΜΉΔΕΙΑ:μηδείς με φαύλην κἀσθενῆ νομιζέτω
    μηδ᾽ ἡσυχαίαν, ἀλλὰ θατέρου τρόπου,
    βαρεῖαν ἐχθροῖς καὶ φίλοισιν εὐμενῆ:
    810τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων εὐκλεέστατος βίος.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Medea [Μήδεια], l. 807ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/83545/

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  6. A quotation from Euripides

    MEDEA:                     Let no one think of me
    As humble or weak or passive; let them understand
    I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies,
    Loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
     
    [ΜΉΔΕΙΑ:μηδείς με φαύλην κἀσθενῆ νομιζέτω
    μηδ᾽ ἡσυχαίαν, ἀλλὰ θατέρου τρόπου,
    βαρεῖαν ἐχθροῖς καὶ φίλοισιν εὐμενῆ:
    810τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων εὐκλεέστατος βίος.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Medea [Μήδεια], l. 807ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/83545/

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  7. A quotation from Euripides

    MEDEA:                     Let no one think of me
    As humble or weak or passive; let them understand
    I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies,
    Loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
     
    [ΜΉΔΕΙΑ:μηδείς με φαύλην κἀσθενῆ νομιζέτω
    μηδ᾽ ἡσυχαίαν, ἀλλὰ θατέρου τρόπου,
    βαρεῖαν ἐχθροῖς καὶ φίλοισιν εὐμενῆ:
    810τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων εὐκλεέστατος βίος.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Medea [Μήδεια], l. 807ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/83545/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #appearances #enemies #friends #selfassessment #selfevaluation #selfimage #underestimation #weakness

  8. A quotation from Euripides

    MEDEA:                     Let no one think of me
    As humble or weak or passive; let them understand
    I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies,
    Loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
     
    [ΜΉΔΕΙΑ:μηδείς με φαύλην κἀσθενῆ νομιζέτω
    μηδ᾽ ἡσυχαίαν, ἀλλὰ θατέρου τρόπου,
    βαρεῖαν ἐχθροῖς καὶ φίλοισιν εὐμενῆ:
    810τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων εὐκλεέστατος βίος.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Medea [Μήδεια], l. 807ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/83545/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #appearances #enemies #friends #selfassessment #selfevaluation #selfimage #underestimation #weakness

  9. A quotation from Shakespeare

    RICHARD: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
       To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
       I am determinèd to prove a villain
       And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard III, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 28ff (1.1.28-31) (1592)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

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  10. A quotation from Shakespeare

    RICHARD: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
       To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
       I am determinèd to prove a villain
       And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard III, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 28ff (1.1.28-31) (1592)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardiii #badguy #badperson #selfaffirmation #selfawareness #selfdetermination #selfdirection #selfevaluation #selfperception #selfunderstanding #villain

  11. A quotation from Shakespeare

    RICHARD: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
       To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
       I am determinèd to prove a villain
       And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard III, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 28ff (1.1.28-31) (1592)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardiii #badguy #badperson #selfaffirmation #selfawareness #selfdetermination #selfdirection #selfevaluation #selfperception #selfunderstanding #villain

  12. A quotation from Shakespeare

    RICHARD: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
       To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
       I am determinèd to prove a villain
       And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard III, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 28ff (1.1.28-31) (1592)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

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  13. A quotation from Montaigne

    There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it — with their judgment blurred and altered — find what they love different, and more perfect, than it is.
     
    [Il y a une autre sorte de gloire, qui est une trop bonne opinion, que nous concevons de nostre valeur. C’est un’affection inconsideree, dequoy nous nous cherissons, qui nous represente à nous mesmes, autres que nous ne sommes. Comme la passion amoureuse preste des beautez, & des graces, au subject qu’elle embrasse ; & fait que ceux qui en sont espris, trouvent d’un jugement trouble & alteré, ce qu’ils aiment, autre & plus parfait qu’il n’est.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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  14. A quotation from Montaigne

    There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it — with their judgment blurred and altered — find what they love different, and more perfect, than it is.
     
    [Il y a une autre sorte de gloire, qui est une trop bonne opinion, que nous concevons de nostre valeur. C’est un’affection inconsideree, dequoy nous nous cherissons, qui nous represente à nous mesmes, autres que nous ne sommes. Comme la passion amoureuse preste des beautez, & des graces, au subject qu’elle embrasse ; & fait que ceux qui en sont espris, trouvent d’un jugement trouble & alteré, ce qu’ils aiment, autre & plus parfait qu’il n’est.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #ego #glory #pride #selfadmiration #selfapproval #selfassessment #selfdeception #selfdelusion #selfevaluation #selfglorification #selfimage #selflove #selfperception #selfregard #selfrighteousness #selfvalue #selfworth #vainglory #vanity #humility

  15. A quotation from Montaigne

    There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it — with their judgment blurred and altered — find what they love different, and more perfect, than it is.
     
    [Il y a une autre sorte de gloire, qui est une trop bonne opinion, que nous concevons de nostre valeur. C’est un’affection inconsideree, dequoy nous nous cherissons, qui nous represente à nous mesmes, autres que nous ne sommes. Comme la passion amoureuse preste des beautez, & des graces, au subject qu’elle embrasse ; & fait que ceux qui en sont espris, trouvent d’un jugement trouble & alteré, ce qu’ils aiment, autre & plus parfait qu’il n’est.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #ego #glory #pride #selfadmiration #selfapproval #selfassessment #selfdeception #selfdelusion #selfevaluation #selfglorification #selfimage #selflove #selfperception #selfregard #selfrighteousness #selfvalue #selfworth #vainglory #vanity #humility

  16. A quotation from Montaigne

    There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it — with their judgment blurred and altered — find what they love different, and more perfect, than it is.
     
    [Il y a une autre sorte de gloire, qui est une trop bonne opinion, que nous concevons de nostre valeur. C’est un’affection inconsideree, dequoy nous nous cherissons, qui nous represente à nous mesmes, autres que nous ne sommes. Comme la passion amoureuse preste des beautez, & des graces, au subject qu’elle embrasse ; & fait que ceux qui en sont espris, trouvent d’un jugement trouble & alteré, ce qu’ils aiment, autre & plus parfait qu’il n’est.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #ego #glory #pride #selfadmiration #selfapproval #selfassessment #selfdeception #selfdelusion #selfevaluation #selfglorification #selfimage #selflove #selfperception #selfregard #selfrighteousness #selfvalue #selfworth #vainglory #vanity #humility

  17. A quotation from Montaigne

    There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it embraces and makes those smitten by it — with their judgment blurred and altered — find what they love different, and more perfect, than it is.
     
    [Il y a une autre sorte de gloire, qui est une trop bonne opinion, que nous concevons de nostre valeur. C’est un’affection inconsideree, dequoy nous nous cherissons, qui nous represente à nous mesmes, autres que nous ne sommes. Comme la passion amoureuse preste des beautez, & des graces, au subject qu’elle embrasse ; & fait que ceux qui en sont espris, trouvent d’un jugement trouble & alteré, ce qu’ils aiment, autre & plus parfait qu’il n’est.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #ego #glory #pride #selfadmiration #selfapproval #selfassessment #selfdeception #selfdelusion #selfevaluation #selfglorification #selfimage #selflove #selfperception #selfregard #selfrighteousness #selfvalue #selfworth #vainglory #vanity #humility

  18. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Do not forget you are like the rest of the world, and faulty yourself in a great many instances: that though you may forbear from some errors, it is not for want of inclination, and that nothing but cowardice, vanity, or some such base principle hinders you from sinning.
     
    [καὶ αὐτὸς πολλὰ ἁμαρτάνεις καὶ ἄλλος τοιοῦτος εἷ: καὶ εἴ τινων δὲ ἁμαρτημάτων ἀπέχῃ, ἀλλὰ τήν γε ἕξιν ἐποιστικὴν ἔχεις, εἰ καὶ διὰ δειλίαν ἢ δοξοκοπίαν ἢ τοιοῦτό τι κακὸν ἀπέχῃ τῶν ὁμοίων ἁμαρτημάτων.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier/Zimmern (1887)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8169…

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  19. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 151 (1955)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17245/

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  20. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure. The former kind of surprise is pleasant, the latter unpleasant. It is therefore wise to be not unduly conceited, though also not too modest to be enterprising.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/795…

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  21. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure. The former kind of surprise is pleasant, the latter unpleasant. It is therefore wise to be not unduly conceited, though also not too modest to be enterprising.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/795…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #overestimation #conceit #ego #expectations #humility #pride #selfconfidence #selfesteem #selfevaluation #selfimage #underestimation #motivation

  22. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure. The former kind of surprise is pleasant, the latter unpleasant. It is therefore wise to be not unduly conceited, though also not too modest to be enterprising.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/795…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #overestimation #conceit #ego #expectations #humility #pride #selfconfidence #selfesteem #selfevaluation #selfimage #underestimation #motivation

  23. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure. The former kind of surprise is pleasant, the latter unpleasant. It is therefore wise to be not unduly conceited, though also not too modest to be enterprising.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/795…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #overestimation #conceit #ego #expectations #humility #pride #selfconfidence #selfesteem #selfevaluation #selfimage #underestimation #motivation

  24. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure. The former kind of surprise is pleasant, the latter unpleasant. It is therefore wise to be not unduly conceited, though also not too modest to be enterprising.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/795…

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  25. A quotation from Thomas Fuller

    Thou never wast so good as thou shouldest be; if thou does not strive to be better. And thou never wilt be better, if thou doest not fear to grow worse.

    Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
    Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2092 (1727)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…

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