If you're afraid to do something in a social setting, it is because you are more invested in someone else's opinion of you than you are in your own opinion of yourself.

Luca Dellanna

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Michel de Montaigne

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

Lord Chesterfield

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Jealousy is such a poisonous emotion because, at the end of the day, you're no better off, you're unhappier, and the person you're jealous of is still successful or good-looking or whatever they are.

He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can't know who he really is.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

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