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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.


Pythagoras

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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
PYTHAGORAS No man is free who is not master of himself.
EPICTETUS No man is free who is not a master of himself.
EPICTETUS No man is free who is not a master of himself
EPICTETUS No one is free who does not lord over himself.
CLAUDIUS Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control hi...
PYTHAGORAS Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control him...
PYTHAGORAS No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
WILLIAM PENN Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any par...
STEFAN ZWEIG No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU No one can please a man who is not at peace with himself.
BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI No man is such a conquerer as the man who has defeated himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot co...
JAMES ALLEN A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a fr...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI No man is happy who does not think himself so.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
ALBERT CAMUS A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserabl...
JOHN STUART MILL No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is...
ALAN ASHLEY-PITT The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is...
ALAN ASHLEY-PITT A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own per...
ANONYMOUS A true man is one who finds in himself no Vanity, Arrogance or Self-Importance but rather humbles hi...
POATE J MATAIRAVULA No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
SENECA We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOS We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
DEMOSTHENES No one who lives in error is free.
EURIPIDES No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own...
JOHN STUART MILL Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. ...
MAX STIRNER The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
ROBIN HOBB No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in ...
A. ALVAREZ There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so
GERMAN PROVERB The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RAND The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for ...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously t...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER A man of courage is in command of himself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o...
CRISS JAMI A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
TOM STOPPARD To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowle...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other word...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
ROBERT E. LEE One man alone can not change things, if this is what he tells himself, but a man who tells himself h...
RYAN THACKER No you didn't give me free. The devil has in-prison thee with false illusions that you hold my free....
SUSIE L HILL As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J.M. SYNGE A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you ca...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The person who says he trusts no one should include himself.
UNKNOWN The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
MARK TWAIN There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Who has not served cannot command.
JOHN FLORIO Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c...
B.R. AMBEDKAR The strong man is not the good wrestler; the strong man is only the one who controls himself when he...
PROPHET MOHAMMED Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b...
GURDJIEFF The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he...
THOMAS CARLYLE Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."
Aristotle
BRUCE WAYNE SULLIVAN Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
JOAQUIN SETANTI Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
JOAQUIN SETANTI Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA A patient man is one who can put up with himself.
SOURCE UNKNOWN A patient man is one who can put up with himself.
He who will have no judge but himself condemns himself
PROVERB Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is alway...
HANNAH ARENDT No one is ever free when they cannot approach the obstacle that limits them.
STEVEN LAWRENCE HILL, SR. I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himse...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
GEORGE BERKELEY Man has no greater enemy than himself.
FRANCESCO PETRARCH The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he ...
GERALD STANLEY LEE If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the na...
LEO TOLSTOY The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it
GERARD GROOTE We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemn...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What...
MAX STIRNER The tragedy of a man who has found himself out
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at lea...
NAPOLEON HILL Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially fr...
JOHN WOODEN Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially fr...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially ...
JOHN WOODEN God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without f...
THOMAS à KEMPIS You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
EPICTETUS You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will
EPICTETUS I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to ...
DAVE SIM

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