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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)
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