“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Ernest Hemingway
A Man’s Credo (Primary source)
This short essay on life philosophy, written by Ernest Hemingway, appeared in Playboy, January 1963.
“To regret one’s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience and discipline regulated by judgment.”
Ernest Hemingway
“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
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