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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


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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)

Tags:ego,love


“Vain men never hear anything but praise.” (2401)

Tags:ego