#self

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#ambitious #authority #enough #free #itself

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. ↗

— Dario Argento

#every #extent #himself #some #writer

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#fleeing #self-defense #shoot #someone #who

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ↗

— Aristotle

#conquers #count #desires #hardest #him

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. ↗

— Aristotle

#allow #base #belongs #both #does

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less. ↗

— Richard Armour

#eating #help #helping #less #more

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. ↗

— Aristotle

#certain #conditions #crises #danger #does

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. ↗

— Aristotle

#gold #impress #into #iron #itself

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ↗

— Aristotle

#because #either #god #himself #live

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ↗

— Aristotle

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