self-awareness Quotes

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.