I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. – Michel de Montaigne Category: Self-Respect
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. – Robert Byrne Category: Self-Respect
Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemys dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski Category: Violence
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. – Charles Caleb Colton Category: Sight
All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened. – Ernest Hemingway Category: good
