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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
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"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."
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"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."
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"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
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"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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"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."
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"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."
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"Human beings are by nature political animals."
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"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."
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"One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought."
Simplicity
"For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."
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"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
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"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."
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"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
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"Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age."
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
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"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."
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