Quotes About Ego

De multe ori am fost uimit de faptul ca fiecare, desi se iubeste pe sine insusi mai mult decat pe toti ceilalti, pune totusi mai putin pret pe propria parere despre sine decat pe parerea celorlalti despre el.

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

4. It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

73. When you have done a good act and another has received it, why do you look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return?

They despise one another, yet they flatter one another;they sant to get above another and get they bow down to one another.

never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

The pride that prides itself on freedom from pride is the hardest of all to bear.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

18. The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share. No, but to be admired by Posterity—people they've never met and never will—that's what they set their hearts on. You might as well be upset at not being a hero to your great-grandfather.

Will a little fame distract you?

La vanidad que se exalta bajo capa de modestia es la más insoportable de todas.

4?]??I have often wondered how it is that everyone loves himself more than anyone else, but rates his own judgement of himself below that of others.

There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.

I often wonder how it is that most people value their own lives above others, yet value other's opinions of them over their own self-opinions.

Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.

for a man to be proud and high conceited, that he is not proud and high conceited, is of all kind of pride and presumption, the most intolerable.

Receive without conceit; release without a struggle.

XLVI. The ambitious supposeth another man's act, praise and applause, to be his own happiness; the voluptuous his own sense and feeling; but he that is wise, his own action.

Si disprezzano e tuttavia fanno a gara nell'adularsi a vicenda, e così vanno avanti a forza di inchini.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own

Often have I marvelled how each one of us loves himself above all men, yet sets less store by his own opinion of himself than by that of everyone else.

I think Jesus would have said, "It's not about me." During his lifetime, he deflected attention from himself. In an illuminating passage in our earliest gospel, when a man addressed him as "Good Teacher," Jesus responded with, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone."22

Selfishness seldom has to do with reaching for the biggest piece of cake on the plate; rather, it is preoccupation with our selves.

the man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself.