"Best Friend"; written and sung by Reddy
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Confucius 269
Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551–-479 BCRelated quotes
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), Chapter 3, p. 49
“The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie;”
As quoted in Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals, and Things, 1800, p. 4. http://books.google.com/books?id=vFJFAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA4&ots=ZtdzIH54NC&dq=inauthor%3Ajohann%20inauthor%3Azimmermann%20%22the%20more%20you%20speak%20of%20yourself%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=inauthor:johann%20inauthor:zimmermann%20%22the%20more%20you%20speak%20of%20yourself%22&f=false|
Context: The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie; say but little, 'twill scarcely gain belief; so strong are partiality and envy.
“Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.”
Book I, ch. 19 (p. 21)
The Ladder of Perfection (1494)