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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly read more
Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't read more
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that read more
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.
I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.
There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in read more
There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler.
Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important.
All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age.
Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.
To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
