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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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"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
"Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth."
"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."
"So many people sabotage their own chances for happiness-don't be one of them."
"I never worry about action, but only inaction."
"Rule your mind or it will rule you."
"You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it."
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"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."
"When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there now instead of then."
"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
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