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What does it mean?
It is safer to rely on oneself than on others.
In plain terms
You are better off not trusting anyone with your life.
What can you take from it?
Maintain self-reliance to avoid dependency.

Where it applies

  • betrayal
  • loneliness
  • decision making

Putting it to work

  • build self-trust
  • set boundaries

Questions to consider

  • Do you trust others with your life?
  • Why might this be safer?

Another view

Complete isolation can lead to harm.

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

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  2. Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

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  3. I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

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