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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius121–180III, 7
- Honor
Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good; not for any man’s sake, but for thine own nature’s sake; as if either gold, or the emerald, or purple, should ever be saying to themselves, Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, I must still be an emerald, and I must keep my colour.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations (c. 170–180), The Seventh BookIn context
- Virtue
I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men’s opinions concerning himself than his own.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations (c. 170–180), The Twelfth BookIn context
- Thinking
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIn context
- Marriage
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter IIn context
- Love
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter IIn context
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIIn context
- Charity
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter IIn context
- Pride
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter XIIIIn context
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter VIIIn context
- Forgiveness
“Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter XVIIIn context
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume II, Chapter VIIn context
- Love
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
Richard Bachborn 1936The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Festus (1839)
- Change