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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."
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Personal Development
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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Personal Development
"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
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Personal Development
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
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Personal Development
"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
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Personal Development
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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Personal Development
"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
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Personal Development
"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
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Personal Development
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
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Personal Development
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
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"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal."
Democracy
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
Friendship
"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
Friendship
"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."
Freedom
"Nature does nothing in vain."
Nature
"We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them."
Politics
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Art
"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
Relationship
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
Courage
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