To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
Pablo Picasso
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when... →
Isaac Rosenberg
If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.
Julian Sands
A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.
Dayananda Saraswati
What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in... →
George Saunders
The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
Pierre Schaeffer
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein