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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them."
"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
"Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?"
"You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it."
"One must say, be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut."
"If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can't change other people."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"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."
"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."
"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."
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"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."
"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"
"Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state."
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
"Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims."
"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."
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