Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
“Give thyself more diligently to reflection: know thyself: take counsel with the Godhead; without God put thine hand into nothing.”
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Golden Sayings of Epictetus
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“Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.”
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As quoted in Fragments of Reality: Daily Entries of Lived Life (2006) by Peter Cajander, p. 109
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
X, 30
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.
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De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)
Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 779.
“533. Help thyselfe, and God will helpe thee.”
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Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Use these rules then, and trouble thyself about nothing else.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
X, 2
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), pp. 170-171.