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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 do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
"Rule your mind or it will rule you."
"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."
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth."
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"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it."
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever."
"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."
"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
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