Self-Deprecating Sayings

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

There was no other like me, no other king who could stand before me, for I am the chosen of Ra, the son of Osiris, the living Horus on earth.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

You are not I. How do you know I don't know the happiness of fish?

Sweet mother, I truly cannot weave my web; for I am o'erwhelmed through Aphrodite with love of a slender youth.

O Lord, I have not spoken to the people since I was a baby.

I transmit, but don't innovate. I am faithful to and love the ancients.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

I have discovered a method by which any given solid may be weighed in water.

I have measured the circumference of the Earth with a stick and some shadows.

I had a dream that I was being carried up to heaven by Jupiter himself, and that I was being placed among the stars.

I am not afraid of death, but of dishonor.

I am not born for one corner; my country is this whole world.

I have nothing. Therefore, I am always rich.

My mind is fixed, I have no time for love.

O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.