Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight...

… a man doesn’t like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn’t know anything.

Mastery is often taken for egotism

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind.

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil — or else an absolute ignorance.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish days when our simple hearts were full of truth, and faith, and reverence! Ah, those foolish days of noble longings...

Ego got you thinkin’ you’re workin’ somebody to your advantage; you’re just playin’ yourself.