“I realized my obligations to others should be greater than my obligations to myself.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 152
“This island was the dominion of my fatherand should descend to none other than myself. Foreigners must go.”
— Koxinga
The island of Formosa, past and present: History, people, resources, and commercial prospects. Tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productions, 1903, James Wheeler Davidson, Macmillan & co., LONDON AND NEW YORK, 37, Dec. 20 2011 http://books.google.com/books?id=QNMTAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=descend%20none%20other&f=false, (STANFORD LIBRARIES KELLY & WALSH, LD. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, AND SINGAPORE "JAPAN GAZETTE" PRESS, Yokohama)
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Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon
Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Alexander http://books.google.com/books?id=vWIOAAAAYAAJ&q=%22for+my+part+I+assure+you+I+had+rather+excel+others+in+the+knowledge+of+what+is+excellent+than+in+the+extent+of+my+power+and+dominion%22&pg=PA167#v=onepage from Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden (1683)
“None, none descends into himself, to find
The secret imperfections of his mind.”
Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere! nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.
Persius (34–62) ancient latin poet
Satire IV, line 23 (translated by John Dryden).
The Satires
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Olaf Stapledon book Star Maker
Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter XVI: Epilogue: Back to Earth (p. 187)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) German late baroque era composer
Variant: The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Alexander
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to Mr. Clarke (1816-04-01) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear.”
Omnium autem rerum nec aptius est quicquam ad opes tuendas ac tenendas quam diligi nec alienius quam timeri.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book II, section 7; translation by Walter Miller
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)