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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
"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."
"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
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"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 by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
"The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must represent one action, a complete whole, with its several incidents so closely connected that the transposal or withdrawal of any one of them will disjoin and dislocate the whole. For that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole."
"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."
"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
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