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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
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"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"If you're planning on quitting, first make sure it's not for one of these reasons: Fear, Discomfort,Anger,Self-pity,Someone's negative opinions,Past failures,Unrealistic expectations."
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
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"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
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"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
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"Immediate gratification is a dream killer."
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"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
Creativity
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
Truth
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
Happiness
"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."
Life
"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
Wisdom
"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."
Faith
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
Faith
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
Nature
"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
Philosophy
"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
Wisdom
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