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Title: Ego Is the Enemy Authors: Ryan Holiday Category:#books Number of Highlights: 4 Date: 2024-01-15 Last Highlighted: 2024-01-15
Highlights
As Goethe once observed, the great failing is “to see yourself as more than you are and to value yourself at less than your true worth.” (2048)
Tags:#perspective,#self
Duris dura franguntur. Hard things are broken by hard things. (2231)
Tags:#favorite,#stoic,#strength
The only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can’t bear to part from it is selfish and stupid. If your reputation can’t absorb a few blows, it wasn’t worth anything in the first place. (2366)
“Vain men never hear anything but praise.” (2401)
Tags:#ego