It is remarkable to be able to stand outside the tent and sun oneself.
It must have been almost a pleasure to find oneself so neatly despatched!
It seeks to find in oneself the faults it notices in others, and perhaps greater ones, and tries to correct them.
The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws.
Astronomy is so clear and so thoroughly explored now, that it is difficult to put oneself into a contemporary attitude.
But to hang on to seventy is nasty, better only to thirty; one might retain 'a shadow of nobility' by deceiving oneself.
It is very sweet to follow Fenelon's counsel and give oneself to Christ in all these interruptions; but this time I said, "oh, dear!" before I thought.
He said horrid things about other people in such a charming way that one forgave him for the equally horrid things he said about oneself behind one's back.
Firstly, under the head of necessary duty to oneself: He who contemplates suicide should ask himself whether his action can be consistent with the idea of humanity as an end in itself.
Thirdly, as regards contingent (meritorious) duties to oneself: It is not enough that the action does not violate humanity in our own person as an end in itself, it must also harmonize with it.