You Must Not Oppress Yourself Through Self-chastisement or Self-abuse

If a human being wants to live truly and fairly, then he/she has to consider and understand that the fulfillment of the duties to himself/herself is constantly and always the most important and foremost.

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Therefore you must not oppress yourself through self-chastisement or self-abuse, or through self-disregard or bitterness or through feeling of inferiority, and so forth. Also, just as a depravity of one's own "I" through flattery of any kind and wise must never arise, self-neglect must never arise.

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...the entire attentiveness is steered away from the burdens and is attached to something else which is neutral.

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Others will respect you only when you able to give yourself sufficient respect.